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By Galen C. McBride
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Nearly 30 people packed the county library’s meeting room last Friday night to hear popular arborist and forestry expert Lyt Wood discuss forest management issues, including clear-cutting, selective cutting, and tree planting programs. In his opening remarks, Hunt Harris of the Ragged Mountain Resource Center, which sponsored the event through its “Blue Ridge to the Bay” speakers series, introduced Wood as an “outdoor educator” and co-founder of Rappahannock Nature Camp.
Tb the delight of his audience, most of whom were well-acquainted with his work, Wood presented his “five rules for forest management.” He encouraged his audience to consider alternative perspectives of land and forest use from “no cut” options to commercial logging, always tying them closely to responsible forest replanting and regeneration practices. Describing the no cut option as “one of the really basic” choices
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