A controversial plan to cut 52 acres of pine trees in the Manuel F. Correllus state forest has no anticipated start date more than a year after it was approved.
Though the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, which owns the 5,300-acre forest in the middle of the Island, said it is committed to the cutting, the state agency can’t find anyone to swing the axe.
DCR put the project out to bid in January, but the plan was stymied when only one bidder came in well over the state’s budget. DCR undertook a second request for proposals later in the year, but when the deadline came on Sept. 18, no one had bid on a project, a spokesperson said last week. …