Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:17:35 -0400
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Pittsboro landowner recognized for outstanding forest management
Since we are talking about the long-term crop called trees
Read the entire story at
http://www.chathamjournal.com/
Pittsboro, NC – Thomas Glosson, a Pittsboro resident and long time tree farmer, was recently re-certified as a tree farm through the NC Tree Farm Program. Mr. Glosson has been a long term advocate of sustainable forest management, and actively manages his 130 acres of land on Mt. Olive Church Road in northern Chatham County. Mr. Glosson recently celebrated his 80th birthday, but still works daily on his farm. He is a valuable advocate for sustainable forest management through his involvement with NC Farm Bureau.
Since acquiring his property, he has sustainably harvested and re-planted more than 116 acres of trees on the property (that’s more than 60,000 tree seedlings!). As he has slowly phased out of the business of raising beef cattle, he has planted all of his pastureland in trees with the assistance of the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, and the North Carolina Forest Service.