PALTA
Honors Troy Firth with Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award
On May 17,
the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association (PALTA) honored Troy Firth with the
2019 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award. Firth received the award at the
annual Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference, held this year at Skytop
Lodge.
For over 45
years, Troy Firth has set himself apart as a responsible and thoughtful pioneer
in sustainable forestry.
Since 1971,
Firth has practiced sustainable forestry as the owner and manager of Firth
Maple Products, producing and selling certified organic maple syrup while
taking a different approach to sustainable timber harvesting. Firth led the
movement towards uneven-aged forest management instead of intensive even-aged
management, a method that cultivates greater forest habitat diversity and ecosystem
integrity. In an era when mechanical tree removal is the status quo, Firth uses
horses to skid logs on his 7,000 acres of forest, demonstrating that horses can
meet the needs of industrial forestry without compromising the health of the
forest floor.
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