Hill Demonstration Forest
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Hill Demonstration Forest is a 2,450-acre forest in Durham County and the site of Camp Slocum, where all rising juniors in FER's Forestry Program spend 10 weeks of intensive summer field work.
Established in 1929, Hill Forest has been managed as a teaching laboratory, where students learn to survey, measure, identify vegetation, perform water and soil tests and undertake the myriad other tasks that are part of every forester's job.
Like all of our forests, Hill is economically self-sustaining through timber sales and usage fees.
Research studies conducted using the forest have resulted in more than 15 PhD dissertations, 31 Masters theses and 23 refereed articles in journals or books.
We accommodate hunting and other recreational uses of Hill Forest if they do not conflict with our primary academic mission.
For information about hunting and other recreational use of Hill Forest, view and/or download the documents below, which have been updated August 2007:
Explanation of Recreational Permits (download pdf)
Application for Recreational Permits: (download .doc or .pdf)
Explanation of Hunting Permit (download .pdf)
Application for Hunting Permit: (download .doc, or .pdf)
Hunting Regulations for 2007-08 Season: (download .doc, or .pdf)
