This year’s conference will bring together foresters, conservation professionals, municipal leaders, land stewards, woodland owners, volunteers, and others who care about the future of Massachusetts’ town forests.

Town forests are more than protected acres on a map.

They are places where communities make thoughtful choices about forest health, invasive species, wildlife habitat, climate resilience, and active forest management. The choices we make today will shape the forests future generations inherit.

That idea is at the heart of this year’s conference: “Stewardship: The Preservation, Health and Growth of New England Town Forests in the 21st Century.”

The theme centers on a simple idea: How we care for our town forests today shapes what comes next.