Climate Smart Forestry Practices

DEC, in partnership with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (AGM), Cornell University, SUNY ESF, and Syracuse University is launching a new program to implement climate smart agriculture and forestry practices. Part of Cornell University’s role includes providing support and education to landowners and professionals on silvopasture.

The program is still in development and more information will be posted on this website in the future.

To begin:

Climate Smart Forestry and Silvopasture Technical Resources

Slash Walls

1. Slash Wall: An Overview (6:39 min)
2. Slash Walls: Concepts and Applications for the Control of Deer Impacts to Forest Vegetation (bulletin, pdf)
3. Vegetation Response to Slash Walls that Exclude Deer from Hardwood Forest Regeneration Harvests (1:32:03)
4. Slash Wall Gallery, New York and New England (pdf)

Silvopasture

1. What is Silvopasture (2:37)
2. Considerations before starting silvopasture (2:15)
3. Thinning Forests for Silvopasture (5:39)
4. Converting Pasture to Silvopasture (4:34)
5. Introduction to Silvopasture (4:30, B. Chedzoy)
6. A Basis for Expanding Silvopasture in the Northeast (1:29:51, R. Brubaker)
7. Silvopasturing in the Northeast (bulletin pdf)
8. Silvopasture principles, Minnesota (bulletin, pdf)
9. Silvopasture site assessment (fact sheet, pdf)