{"id":42482,"date":"2024-09-17T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=42482"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:01:58","slug":"sustainable-forest-management-public-discussion-scheduled-at-pocomoke-river-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/09\/17\/sustainable-forest-management-public-discussion-scheduled-at-pocomoke-river-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Forest Management Public Discussion Scheduled at Pocomoke River State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48104865707_8c854f49e4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of forest\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chesapeake Forest Lands, Maryland Department of Natural Resources photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Forest Service invites the public to a question-and-answer session about sustainable state forest management on the Eastern Shore from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. October 16 at the Manokin Pavilion in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/eastern\/pocomokeriver.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pocomoke River State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff will share information on the Forest Service\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/publiclands\/CFL\/Management-Plan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sustainable forest management plan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and facts about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/publiclands\/eastern_pocomokeforest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pocomoke State Forest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/forests\/Pages\/chesapeakeforestlands.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chesapeake Forest Lands<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Topics of interest will also include forest management, the planning process, timber harvesting, old growth forest, sustainable forest certification, and more.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Independent auditors recently reviewed the Pocomoke State Forest and Chesapeake Forest Lands and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/07\/03\/certification-recognizes-maryland-state-forests-as-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recertified them as sustainable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, meeting international standards for forest management. In 2003, the Chesapeake Forest Lands became the state\u2019s first certified forests, and Pocomoke State Forest was certified shortly after; today that recognition is shared by 214,000 acres of state forest land across Maryland. The third-party audits consider ecological, social, and economic benefits of a responsibly managed forest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Manokin Pavilion is located at the Shad Landing Area of Pocomoke State Park, 3461 Worcester Highway, Snow Hill. In the event of inclement weather, the session will be held at the park\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/eastern\/Pocomoke\/Camp-Store.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">camp store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Forest Service invites the public to a question-and-answer session about sustainable state forest management on the Eastern Shore from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. October 16 at the Manokin Pavilion in Pocomoke River State Park.\u00a0\u00a0 Staff will share information on the Forest Service\u2019s sustainable forest management plan and facts about Pocomoke State Forest<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/09\/17\/sustainable-forest-management-public-discussion-scheduled-at-pocomoke-river-state-park\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[3434,4994,3486,3989,5516,5515],"class_list":["post-42482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-chesapeake-forest-lands","tag-maryland-forest-service","tag-pocomoke-river-state-park","tag-pocomoke-state-forest","tag-public-meeting","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42484,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions\/42484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}