DEEP plans controlled burn of CT forest Josh LaBella FacebookTwitterEmail VOLUNTOWN — State officials are planning a controlled burn of the Pachaug State Forest on Wednesday. According to a release, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection plans to conduct the burn of 122 acres of forest, weather and conditions permitting. “DEEP is employing this forestry management practice to promote the development of new oak and pine forest,” officials said. “This location has experienced catastrophic oak decline, with an estimated 90 percent of the oak trees having died due to successive years of gypsy moth defoliations, droughts, and chestnut borer infestations, the latter of which is attracted to stressed oaks.”