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Authority approves timbering plan for preservation tract in Bar Hills subdivision with conditions
Summary
The authority approved a forestry plan to clear a stand of loblolly pine within a preservation tract tied to a rural preservation development easement, citing pine-bark-beetle infestation and habitat-restoration goals; staff flagged outstanding utility-access questions for follow-up with Dominion and landowner.
The Albemarle County authority approved a forestry (timbering) plan for a roughly 30-acre core stand of loblolly pine within a preservation tract tied to the Bar Hills rural preservation development easement. The plan, shown to the authority and supported by a Department of Forestry forest-stand plan, recommends clear-cutting the infested stand to facilitate replanting of hardwoods and future selective thinning.
Adam Bechtel, the property owner who attended the meeting, told the authority his goal is to restore habitat and reintroduce hardwoods after pine bark-beetle infestation and past mismanagement left the stand unstable. ‘‘If I leave it, it's gonna just cause a real management problem because it's starting to collapse on itself,’’…
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