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Stewardship Purpose
By enrolling in the Forest Stewardship Program and following a Stewardship Plan, the City of Gardner will be joining many other landowners across the state in a program that promotes ecologically responsible resource management through the following actions and values:
- Managing for long-term forest health, productivity, diversity, and quality.
- Conserving or enhancing water quality, wetlands, soil productivity, biodiversity, cultural, historical and aesthetic resources.
- Following a strategy guided by well-founded silvicultural principles to improve timber quality and quantity when wood products are a goal.
- Setting high standards for foresters, loggers and other operators as practices are implemented; and minimizing negative impacts.
- Learning how woodlands benefit and affect surrounding communities, and cooperation with neighboring owners to accomplish mutual goals when practical.
Forest Stewardship Plans
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