The forest borders Martha's Vineyard Airport on three sides and is chiefly in the towns of West Tisbury and Edgartown.

[4] Despite widespread land clearing for farming and other purposes across Martha's Vineyard throughout its history, much of the area within Correllus State Forest did not suffer this fate.

In 2003, the DCR, in conjunction with the University of Massachusetts began evaluating methods for controlling fuel sources in the Pitch Pine and Scrub Oak areas.

Methods included thinning of pitch pine stands, mowing of shrub understories, and grazing of regrowth by sheep.

[6] In 2008, about 110 acres (45 ha) of dead red pine were removed to reduce fuel loading and to restore pitch pine–scrub oak sand plain through USDA Forest Service funding.