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The Piedmont Earthworks
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Thinning the understory of a mixed stand to promote tree health and forest diversity.
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Mixed Forest Thinning January 1st, 2015
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Working on restoring a mixed transition zone between a hardwood bottomland and pine upland. This area was clearcut twenty two years ago and needs some thinning to grow back healthy.
Forest Thinning December 28th, 2014
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Thinning a section of forest at Briery Creek that has some residual snow damage and too many crowded hardwoods in the understory. This will be a pine savanna maintained with fire.
Controlled Burn Time Lapse November 15th, 2014
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This is the third burn in one of our silvopasture stands at Briery Creek; performed two years after the last one.
One Hour of Silvopastoralism 10/25/2014
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Time lapse of shepherding and understory thinning at Briery Creek Forest farm.
Evening Commute up the Honeysuckle Trail
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Bringing part of the herd back from a silvopasture through a section they have cleared of honeysuckle vines.
Autumn Evening at the Beaver Meadows
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View of the Beaver Meadows at Briery Creek. This is our model lowland ecosystem for second order streams with hardwood riparian buffers and upland pines visible. This is an amazing, coherent landscape.
Silvopasture Clean-up Thinning
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Cutting small hardwood trees in a new area for silvopasture with the herd present to eat the tree tops. They have already eaten most of what they can reach. This area has already been commercially thinned, hand thinned and grazed twice.
Ecotypes II at Briery Creek Forest Farm
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Touring one of the beaver meadows, which make up our lowland ecosystem type for second order streams.
Ecotypes I at Briery Creek Forest Farm
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Tour of the upland ecotypes we manage at Briery Creek Forest farm.
Silvopasture Base Camp
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This is a quick tour of our current base camp for the sheep and goats on silvopasture and why it is set up the way it is, where it is.
Unburned and Burned Silvopasture after Two Years
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This is a quick look at some of the vegetation differences between a silvopasture which has been thinned and grazed for two years with and without controlled burning.
Controlling Honeysuckle in Forest with Livestock, Before and After
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Looking at a large area taken over by the opportunistic plant Japanese honeysuckle before and after intensive foraging by sheep and goats.
Hand Thinning Pines, Before and After
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Looking at why and how we hand thin to improve forest structure on two adjacent sites at Briery Creek Forest Farm
Meet the Briery Creek Herd
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Following the herd of sheep and goats as they forage in an area being converted to silvopasture.
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This is how the rainforest looks like, like a mirror of what I know as South America, with less softwoods that is of course.
Interesting video, thank you. When fire mitigation is the goal it's important to remember that treated Forest burn with higher severity than untreated or protected Forest. This is because wind gets into the canopy and the ground and dry things out. Leaving all the organic material on the sites builds the soil and gives lots of habitat to the forest residents.
Or he could burn the left overs to make charcoal, the indigenous people do that and you barely know about wild fires in the actual Amazon rainforest, I think it's all a matter of humidity in lower areas.
Hello! Please tell me, on what type of soil does a Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) grow? Our pines grow mainly on the sand. Thanks.
Longleaf tends towards sandier soils, as is more common in the coastal plains, but they can thrive on a variety of soils, including rocky soils where mountain Longleaf is found in northern Alabama, and clay soils in parts of Georgia. They don't do well in alkaline soil such as in the black belt of Alabama. Fire tended to determine longleaf boundaries more than soils themselves, although soils and their ability to hold moisture influence fire frequency. Judging by your videos, you aren't in the US.
Heck with growing trees. God is telling you to raise livestock. Up to 17% protein in honeysuckle. Its a gift. The animals will increase the growth of existing trees.
Five years, seems to be enough time to make a good before/after video.
If the planted pines are getting choked out you can do it by hand with a machete 5-7 years after planting, and it is pretty quick and easy. If they're not choked out by then, there won't be a problem.
Hardwood trees produce edible mast for wildlife.
Open grown and grown with competition height growth would/ should be the same. Burning would be safe at the point that you are showing in this video as long as weather conditions were conducive. You can safely burn with most any amount of fuel load on the ground under proper weather. Hope you did get a chance to burn it. You will need multiple burns to knock back that hardwood trash. If you do end up burning you are not going to have a good mixed stand. Even a cool fire is going to start damaging some of your hardwood. Good luck
Did you merely cut this with a chainsaw and leave what you cut on the ground?
Both sides had some pulpwood removed from lanes, but looked like the thick side. Then, I cut non-crop trees on the hand-thinned side and pushed them over onto the ground where they would decay faster.
Yes, I cut the trees with a Stihl MS 361 chainsaw in this area.
This was my thought too. He thinned it, left slash on the ground, and has already let it get grown up in brush instead of putting animals on it to keep it pruned back.
Did you seed at all? Or is this natural regrowth?
We seeded lightly with mostly orchard grass on both sides here; less than five pounds per acre. Almost all of the vegetation seen is natural. The orchard grass only came up on the burned side.
What livestock do you pasture in your woods? Cattle? Sheep? Goats? How much does it cost to get a burn permit where you live?
Valentin Lance We pasture sheep and goats together. Burn permits are free here in Fluvanna County, Va. I just call the local dispatcher before and after the burn and that's it!
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