|
Quick Links
|
|
Forest Management Zone (FMZ) Plans
Each FMZ plan covers multiple DFW properties (see table, below). Individual FMZ plans provide an assessment of current forest conditions and identify a desired future condition that will achieve DFW's wildlife habitat goals on state wildlife lands. FMZ plans describe forest management and monitoring activities designed to achieve desired future conditions and to document the outcome of management activities. FMZ plans identify active and passive management sites on DFW land. Active management sites are open to sustainable harvesting of wood products to provide young forest habitat and to enhance structural habitat attributes (e.g., snags, den trees, mast-producing trees, coarse woody debris). Passive management sites include forest reserves that will conserve elements of biological diversity that are missing from harvested sites, provide biologically mature forest habitat, facilitate assessment of sustainable harvesting practices, and provide aesthetic, recreation, and spiritual opportunities.
| FMZ Name | No. DFW Properties |
DFW Acres |
Plan Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Berkshire
Highlands FMZ Plan 
(9 MB) |
35 | 34,000 | November 2006 |
| Taconic
Mountains FMZ Plan
(5 MB) |
23 | 6,654 | November 2006 |
| Connecticut River Valley FMZ Plan | April 2008 | ||
| Worcester Plateau FMZ Plan | July 2008* | ||
| Northeast Coastal Plain FMZ Plan | December 2008* | ||
| Southeast Coast & Islands FMZ Plan | July 2009* | ||
| North Shore FMZ Plan | December 2009* | ||
| Blackstone Complex FMZ Plan | July 2010* | ||
| Boston Basin FMZ Plan | December 2010* |
*Estimated Date