In search of ‘balance’: Conservationists wade into an age-old debate as they seek more protection for forests

Shelby Perry, a wildlands ecologist with the Northeast Wilderness Trust, inspects trees in the Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve in September 2022. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger WOODBURY — Inside 30 million acres of the largest forested region in the eastern U.S., in a heavily wooded stretch of northeastern Vermont and on more than 6,000 acres of…