WRC - Maple soil connection

[DMcCoy]

My property is in NW Oregon.  Our micro-climate is temperate rain forest with @86" of rain per year.
I recently logged, and we ended up 30% WRC, 46% Alder/maple, 15% fir, 7% hemlock, plus pulp.
The state forester and the logger both mention that cedar are dying, they thought due to climate change or drought.  Mine however are doing great but we have a lot of maples vine and big leaf, and our forest is very diverse.
I plan on replanting with cedar being the dominate species but mixed in that will be maples, fir, hemlock.   Alder will show up like they always do.  I have also left enough 'brood mares' to reseed the entire area with a diverse mixture.
Research from BC, Canada by Suzanne Simard has cedar and maple on one micorrrihizal network and douglas fir and hemlock on another.  She discovered this using radioactive gas and tree seedlings.
Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other | TED Talk

I'm surrounded by 100% douglas fir reprod. as a small land holder I'm going for diversity.

[Southside]

Similar concept that I have had success with converting solid canopy ground into savanah grazing ground here in the east, is to do it slowly.  Around here if you clear cut and do nothing then the ground will quickly come back in seedlings and or black berries / mares tail / green briar mess.  Clover and grasses will not grow, wrong microbal life in the soil.  On my own ground I have learned that if I open up smaller areas, then move, open up another, etc so that the forest floor gets sunlight for part of the day, then the microbal life will shift to one that allows grasses and legumes to flourish.  Couple years later come back and open a bit more.  I still get regeneration of timber, especially hardwood this way, but also get really good grazing ground.  

[mike_belben]

I dont think we will ever understand all of creation's intricacies but at this point i feel its safe to say monoculture and fire supression are not one of them.  What we consider pests and blights, i am beginning to see as natures crop and critter inspector.  What doesnt belong, they remove.

I get great satisfaction piddling with my experiment station.

[SwampDonkey]

Around these parts, the only benefit to monoculture is a quick harvest, less sorting and so on. The pay is the bottom of the scale because there is so much of it and between the government undercutting price and that price being controlled by mills you might as well use it for heat. $300/cord is better money then $120 a cord. It's keeping me warm. :D