Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 18:15:49 -0400
From: “John R Dykers”
Subject: forest management
I too have experienced the feeling that the timber guys had just raped my land. AND the exhaltation of being able to select out merchantiable timber with little or no notice. But there are patches, like my most recent, that are not growing well and have not improved for decades and will not in the next decades; a patch with no outstanding big trees to select; a patch with old trees that will just die standing or blow over and rot and not give any significant growth in the meantime; minimal carbon sequestration; no way to afford to do anything but cut everything sellable to pay the expense of bringing in the equipment and moving it around, these being the most expensive parts of harvest.
We “pertect the land” and there will be fresh cover for birds and calves. (forest is the best winter cover for cattle, especially the cedar trees if you get a clump the little calves do really well.)
John Dykers