The Forestry Forum

A week or two ago, my father-in-law hired a forester, Stewart Turner from Upland, Indiana to come in and mark some trees
for sale.  Stewart marked 150 trees. A few of them
are veneer quality walnut.   :)

What timing!  Isn't this about the time you take your mill over to his place for the winter?  Ther will be a lot of usable wood in the endcuts 8)

whitepe:

Is that on about 15 acres? Tree marking is ideal as long as its done proper with tree extraction being planned too, in order to do least damage.

That really wasn't the point of my post, as I'm sure your in good hands. I have been trying, as well as staff at marketing boards and other consciencous contractors over the years, to convince landowners to use this method. But, sadly they skip the management and go for the rape and run methods on most lots in the area. Its a shame because in my region the tree growth is as good as it gets in New brunswick with all our upland sites and rolling terrain. Most folks are just too short sited and look out for themselves in this regard.

cheers

Good for your father-in-law.  Hiring a consulting forester to handle a timber sale it the best way to insure a good job.

He should get a good price for his timber, get a good logging job, and most important have a healthy forest of well stocked fast growing trees after the logging.

Sorry guys... been too busy at work and my pc's broke at home.  My father-in-law has about 60 acres of
certified tree farm.  He also plants 500-1000 seedlings
every year of various species for as long as I have
been married to his daughter (which has been since 1975)
He harvests timber out about every 5 to 7 years and
has been doing so since the 1940's the last harvest
was in 1997.   He got several bids back and was absolutely
delighted with the bids.  In the past, he has always
used a state forester but this year decided to hire
one instead because the state foresters were pretty booked.
Over the years,  my father-in-law has kept logging trails
maintained throughout the 60 acres so any tree
doesn't have to be skidded very far to get to a logging trail.
He also works very hard at keeping unwanted undergrowth
cleared away and works very hard at keeping lower
branches trimmed away to maintain high quality trunks.
In fact, at Thanksgiving, he borrowed my
Stihl HT-75 chain saw on a stick and took it back from
Illinois to Indiana to do some more trimming.
A few of you FF'ers met my father-in-law in 2003
at the Higgins lake shindig.  He is absolutely a
wonderful steward of Mother - earth.