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Third-graders Georgia Neikirk, Cameron Ouellette, Domanick Gilman, Jasmine Hill and Hailey Bean watch as Jim Cunliffe of Monmouth cuts a pine log on a portable sawmill at Smithfield Plantation in Litchfield on Friday. One-hundred 8- and 9-year-olds from Carrie Ricker Middle School toured the active timber-harvest site at the 104-acre nature center. Logger Dave Swift gave a firsthand look at how a tree is cut and hauled by a skidder to a yard for pickup. The plantation is maintained for education, recreation and forest management purposes, board member David Larrabee said. The Board of Trustees has invited students to two more field trips this spring — Vernal Pool Day and Forestry Day.
David Larrabee of Litchfield shows students a pine board cut on the spot during a timber harvest field trip at Smithfield Plantation on Friday. Larrabee is on the plantation board of trustees. Morten Moesswilde, a district forester with the Maine Forest Service, talks with kids in the background.
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