Reports – Forest Health Challenges

We have left this event listing on our website for a while longer to allow anyone interested in reading the reports produced by DEEP’s Dave Irvin to be able to download them from this listing- see below. These reports were discussed at the March 26 lecture addressing forest health issues by DEEP Forester David Irvin at the Keeney Memorial Cultural Center.

FOREST HEALTH CHALLENGES LECTURE. As a DEEP Central District Service Forester, David Irvin visits private, land trust, and municipally owned forested areas to study the health of the forest and report to the owners. Last May 2025, David visited GMCT’s Wolf Parcel floodplain forest and in October, he inspected the Kycia Farm upland forested areas. David will address the forest health issues he observed in these areas and suggest measures to improve the diversity, resilience, and environmental value of our forests.

DEEP Forester David Irvin

David has produced reports of his forest inspections of the Wolf Parcel floodplain forest and the Kycia Farm upland forest. These will be available for review during the lecture and can be downloaded as PDF’s here:

Wolf Parcel Report (PDF 4.25 mb)

Kycia Farm Main Report (PDF 3.9 mb)

Kycia Farm Report Appendices (PDF 2.9 mb)

Map showing the Kycia Farm parcels in RED and the potential open space parcels in GREEN.

Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, 200 Main Street, Wethersfield