HARTFORD, Conn. — In about 30 acres of dense forest in the Litchfield Hills, a team of foresters and researchers are pioneering new forest management techniques that they say can be replicated throughout New England to make trees more resilient to stressors like climate change.

Great Mountain Forest, one of the largest conservation easements in New England, is helping to preserve several of its young forest stands through pioneering a new forest management technique called pre-commercial trimming. Forest stands are areas of dense canopy growth where young trees compete for water, sunlight and nutrients, according to Kate Regan-Loomis, a natural resource manager with Great Mountain Forest.

The easement encompasses more than 6,000 acres of contiguous forestland in the towns of Norfolk and

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