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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Town Forest Committee
Date: 2022-10-18 Time: 7 PM
Building: Location:
Address:
Purpose: Town Forest Management Session:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Tim Kievan, Kurt Habel.leff Lamson, Nancy Dockter, Bill Hughes, Bill
Sullivan
Members - Not Present:
Susan Bowe, Tom Gardiner
Others Present:
Jane Kinsela, DPW; Martha Moore, Conservation
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Bill Sullivan
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was held by video conference due to the COVID pandemic.
• Introduced new committee member Bill Hughes. Welcome Bill.
• Discussed Phase 3 of the dead tree removal.
o Reading Conservation Commission approved the Forest Cutting Plan (FCP) at
their 9/28/22 meeting. DCR approved the FCP.
o An application for a grant was submitted to DCR as was done last year.
o DPW will contact Kidder Peabody about the required separation from the gas line
near Area 7.
• Discussed native plants for Area 3. Susan and Jeff, with guidance from Walter Kittredge,
planted 40 to 50 pots of native plants after a mustard seed test found no jumping worms.
Thank you all.
• Discussed how to bid invasive plant control. Need to prepare a scope of work to treat the
areas of greatest need. Will utilize the balance of the ARPA funds to be determined after
the Phase 3 bids are received.
• There was not a quorum of members who were present for the 9/27/22 meeting to
approve those minutes. Will try again at the 11/29/22 meeting.
• Next Meeting: scheduled for 11/29/22 at 7:00 pm
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