Loon Nest - Allen Whitney Forest Traditional Geocache
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Loon Nest - Allen Whitney Forest
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The Cache:
LOON NEST at Allen-Whitney Memorial Forest
Manchester, ME
Directions to the Forest:
At Manchester Corner at the junction of Routes 202 and 17, take Route 17 northwest about 1.6 miles to Worthing Rd. on right. Take Worthing Rd. about 1.1 miles to Scribner Hill Rd., which runs through the center of the property.
Once you're there:
Leaving the parking area, the trail follows a logging road that is now also a snowmobile trail, maintained by a local club. We harvested timber here in 2006. Ar the hiding place, you'll see bif white pines, and large rocks lining the shore of Shed Pond. A pair of nesting loons have found its quiet isolation attractive. Are they there today?
About the forest:
Portions of this land were settled by the Allen family during colonial times. The Allen family was active in the publishing business and owned considerable commercial property in downtown Augusta. Mr. Edward A.Whitney was on the faculty of Harvard University, where he met John Hemenway and became acquainted with NEFF. He deeded the first parcel of this forest to NEFF in 1955. The property has been under continuous management by NEFF since 1950 when a forest management plan was prepared by forester A.W. Neff.
The first timber sale was made in 1950 when 225,000 board feet of marked timber were sold for the stumpage price of $9.07/mbf. Additional timber sales have been made regularly since 1950. Tree planting on the abandoned fields was begun by Mr. Whitney in the 1940s and continued until 1961. Sixty-one thousand trees were planted under the Soil Bank program. All of the plantations have been thinned except for a few acres south of the former summer house. An internal road system was constructed in the early 1960s, providing access to all portions of the property.
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