Woods Without Gile

  • 470.00 acres
  • 12/07
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Woods Without Gile

Fowlertown Road, Springfield

Ann and Marc Davis of Wilmot, NH, have named this land "Woods Without Gile" – cleverly revealing its location, which is bordered on three sides (nearly 2.5 miles) at the eastern edge of the 6,725 protected acres of the John F. Gile Memorial State Forest.

Ann and Marc Davis have worked with Ausbon Sargent since purchasing this property in 2002, completing the conservation easement in 2007. The Davises manage "Woods Without Gile," to improve timber quality and to protect the excellent wildlife habitat, open space and watershed values of the property. Woods Without Gile includes important wetlands identified in the NH Fish & Game Wildlife Action Plan as a conservation focus area. In addition the property has historic significance; it houses the remains of five homesteads and one sugar house, which represent a large portion of Fowlertown, a 19th century hill farm community.

The Morrill Meadow/Marsh complex on the property consists of streams, wetlands, peatlands, shrub wetland habitat, and open water. This provides important habitat for beaver, certain species of turtles, salamanders, frogs, and other wetland dependent species.

Ann and Marc allow recreational use of the trails for hiking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing. However, no motorized off-highway recreational vehicles of any type are permitted. Their willingness to allow the public to have non-motorized recreational use of their 470 acres is a great addition to the many public trails already available in the abutting lands of the Gile State Forest.

In 2022, Ann and Marc were named "Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year" by the NH Tree Farm Program.

Read more about the property, in the voice of Ann and Marc Davis, who submitted an article in the bi-annual Chatter newsletter in 2008.

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