Jeremy Turner and Laura French

…Jeremy Turner and his wife, Laura French, are professional foresters. They live on 330 acres in southwestern New Hampshire, land that long ago was cleared for a hilltop farm, and then abandoned. …Since they moved here 15 years ago, they have tried to harvest trees in a way that encourages the ecological diversity and complexity one might find in a much older forest. This includes not just trees but all forms of life, including plants and animals above the ground and below. …This approach is part of a growing trend in American forestry. Like Mr. Turner and Ms. French, more and more landowners, foresters, and overseers of public lands are trying to manage forests with the aim of promoting the values of ecology, a branch of biology that’s the study of the vital connections among plants and animals in a given place, and not simply the economics of harvesting timber.