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Welcome to Brook Farm, a registered tree farm in the foothills of the White Mountains.

In 1900, only 20% of NH was forested.  By 1990, the ratio reversed and 80% of the state was covered with typical New England mixed hardwoods and conifers.

     Brook Farm covers about 40 acres in the foothills of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and borders Dick Brown Pond at an elevation of 1300 feet.  The tree farm displays a few dozen tall (70-foot) white pines and clusters of hemlock, as well as the staple range of beech, hardrock and red maple, birch, and mature red oak.  We have one red (Norway) pine over 80 feet tall.  Plantings include white spruce, balsam fir, white pine, and various fruit trees.

Brook Farm is certified by the American Forest Foundation as well as the New Hampshire Tree Farm Program.

The two paragraphs above were started before the Ice Storm of '98, when Brook Farm suffered severe damage to over 90% of the mature trees.  A harvest of dead and dying timber took place in the winter of 1999-2000, removing most of the damaged but marketable timber.

The good news:  a wet summer in 2000 brought dense cover back to the forest floor and promoted the regeneration of our woods. 

Roam around our website and you'll see all four seasons in the heart of New Hampshire's forests.  Check out the table of contents below, or go directly to our photo album.  

We've included in our album a number of pages devoted to the family.  There's not, as there should have been, an even representation here.  Unfortunately the sources are whatever is in the camera when we return home.  Bear with us a while and we're sure to grow more representative.  In the process we may create a bit of a history of the Brook and related clans.  

Contents

We've added a new Table of Contents that should streamline your search for topics you've formerly found in other places on our site.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  We'll stop changing the order of things as of this minute.  From now on we'll make additions only.  As a result, you're bookmarks or favorites should work longer.

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Edited 05/08/01.

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