by WhiteOak | May 1, 2009 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
We have hired Curtis Environmental of Pittsboro, NC to do the biological inventory in the Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve. Shay Garriock, zoologist, and Kevin Caldwell, botanist, will team up to do this study. The process will bring these two men into the forest...
by WhiteOak | Nov 1, 2008 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
Bob Gilvary has become interested in generating carbon credits from his 2550 acre tree farm which includes 232 acre 500-year forest nature preserve. This spring he hired Britt Boucher of Foresters, Inc. to measure his forest for this program. Britt commented that this...
by WhiteOak | May 1, 2008 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
Bob Gilvary reported that plans have been delayed to put the remaining 2,236 acres of the Gilginia Tree Farm under a conservation easement until it is determined whether it is possible to do this and still have a wind farm on the property. Bob reports further that he...
by WhiteOak | Oct 1, 2007 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
For Bob and Darlinda Gilvary extreme drought and the threat of gypsy moth invasion made for a harrowing time this summer. Relief from the drought finally occurred in late October with five plus inches of rain that fell over three days. The gypsy moth was a problem in...
by WhiteOak | Apr 1, 2007 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
Boundary signs including the identification of both the Department of Conservation and Recreation and The 500-Year Forest Foundation have been installed every 300 feet around this old-growth tract with blaze markings every 100 feet. The state hired Thompson &...
by WhiteOak | Dec 1, 2006 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
In December 2005 Britt Boucher of Foresters, Inc., Blacksburg, appraised the stumpage value of the 233+ acres of forest at $440,000. (Stumpage value is the value of lumber that can be sawed out, minus the costs of harvest, transport, and conversion to lumber including...
