State foresters lead a public walk Wednesday through a planned 32-acre timber cut in Plymouth's Myles Standish State Forest

PLYMOUTH State foresters will walk the public through a planned 32-acre timber cut in Myles Standish State Forest on Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., the town of Plymouth said in a notice posted to its website Nov. 10.

Paul Gregory, a forester with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, will lead the tour of what the state calls the Restoration and Fuels Reduction Buffer Project, according to the town's notice, which the town titled a Bureau of Forestry pre-harvest forest tour.

What the state plans

DCR's Bureau of Forest Fire Control and Forestry lists the project on its Southeast Forest Management Projects page as Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction, located in Plymouth, covering 32 acres of pitch pine and scrub oak forest.

All 32 acres are listed as timber sale acres, meaning the work is planned as a timber sale. The state proposed the project Oct. 6, 2025, and held a public meeting on it Nov. 13, 2025, at 194 Cranberry Road in Carver, according to the same page.

The page leaves the offered, sold, active and harvest completed lines blank for this project. DCR says on the page that a proposal stays posted until the project is carried out through a timber sale or a home fuelwood contract.

Part of a longer run of work in the forest

Myles Standish State Forest, which spans Plymouth and Carver, has carried several state projects aimed at wildfire risk and pine barrens habitat, DCR's list shows.

A 2021 plan for the Charge Pond Campground Complex covers 183.4 acres in Plymouth. DCR wrote that the campground has only one access road and that a wildfire approaching it could overwhelm it quickly, so the plan calls for managing fuels to slow the spread of a wildfire and creating a clear, safe area for campers.

A separate 17-acre fuels reduction buffer at Settler's Green, near West Line Road and Halfway Pond Road in Carver, was proposed in January 2022 and offered for sale March 12, 2025, the page shows, with no sale date listed yet.

A 10-year pine barrens restoration project, offered through MassWildlife, the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, covers 1,326 acres inside the state forest and 2,520 acres in all, and DCR lists that work as active in late winter to early spring, with year seven of 10 complete.

If you go

The town's notice gives the time and lists the location only as Myles Standish State Forest, so people planning to attend should call DCR for the meeting point before heading out. The full written proposal for the 32-acre project is posted on DCR's Southeast Forest Management Projects page.

SC360 will report on what foresters say at the tour and when the state offers the timber for sale.

Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.