Hawthorn Land Management

Mission

At Hawthorn Land Management (HLM) we strive to offer the best service to our customers and their land. Our focus is on preserving native plant species by removing, managing, and mitigating invasive species. We also prune and remove trees in ways that help the long term health of the ecosystem while meshing with the human uses of the land!

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Throughout New England we run into numerous invasive plants such as bittersweet, barberry, buckthorn, honeysuckle, multiflora rose, Norway maple, autumn olive, knotweed, and Hungarian/rambling blackberry. Left unchecked, these species can crowd out delicate native species and cause harm to ecosystems.

Services

• Consultation
  • Offered free of charge, our consultation includes a walk-along property evaluation to identify the steps necessary to bring the property up to HLM standards and effectively manage the land.
• Invasive Plant Removal
  • Our crew clears the land of invasive species to the highest possible standard. This service is repeated until the invasive plants cease sprouting and native species reclaim the land.
  • Depending on the location and client preferences we employ a “Chop and Drop” method where the removed material is placed on the ground to decay and add to the humus layer or the material can be moved to another location that needs more organic matter.
• Native Planting
  • Landowners can work with our leads to identify native plants that best suit the individual property and their desires. Species can be planted on their own or following removal.
• Licensed arborist work- climbing, rigging, pruning, and removing. All of the assurances of a licensed arborist and crew with a major focus on the ecosystem as a whole.
  • Dormant tree pruning- the best time to prune is late winter, when the trees are still dormant and the hardest freezes are past
  • Technical Removals- whether lowering branches onto your stone patio or rigging tree tops to be lifted with a crane, we will minimize the heavy machinery compacting your soil and do our best to eliminate any damage on plants remaining in your wilderness.
  • Fruit tree pruning and orchard management – We do our work to best meet the management needs of those who pick the fruit and the land that the trees occupy. In high deer browse areas we can lift the tree canopy above deer browse or in a fenced yard, maintain a low height so young people can hand-pick fruit for generations to come.
  • Storm cleanup/ damage prevention- We ensure that hazards are safely on the ground, out of the way and able to begin their next processes of decomposition as well as removing at-risk trees, limbs, and other hazards before they have a chance to become threats.
• Integrated Tree Management and Resource Collection
  • chips, dead hedges, log ecosystems, firewood, mushroom logs- the story shouldn’t end when the saws stop cutting.
  • Pruning at optimal times for continued health and lessened stress.
  • Harvest and use of pruned/removed materials for food, fire, and forest health.
  • Integrated Pest Management – When it comes to pest species like Brown tail moth, Spongy moth, and Emerald Ash Borer(EAB), we don’t use any chemicals, instead managing invasive insects without poison using ecosystem-friendly methods such as manual removal .