My Phenology spot here at UVM is in Centennial woods, what makes Centennial woods different is it’s surroundings, being cut through and surrounded by highways, roads and developments. Centennial’s surroundings have a massive impact on it’s health. The place I chose back home in Falmouth, Maine is a small forest called Pine Grove, and just like centennial it is surrounded by roads, businesses and developed area. For all of my life they were even more similar, dense tree growth, dead forest growth on the ground and a thick undercover as well. This fall however the town of Falmouth decided to clean out Pine Grove, they went through with machinery and cleared all dead material off the floor of the forest and cut down many trees. They did this in order to help the forest grow back even healthier than it was before.
