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Clearcutting as a Silvicultural Option in Family Forests of Northeast USA - Chapter 2 Access Trails
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2021
- Prior to site preparation and replanting, establishing quality access trails is very beneficial. This video demonstrates the process.
I really appreciate your videos. I am a family woodlot owner in Nova Scotia. My wife and I became responsible for the management of the property much earlier than we expected, and videos like yours, and the resources you mention, have played a large role in guiding our planning. I’ve used your videos as a way of explaining our goals to our woodlot services coop who produced our management plan. I look forward to future videos.
Brent, I embarked on this and my other videos primarily for woodlot owners like you and your wife, and am very happy that you find them valuable and that the knowledge gained will make you even better stewards of your forest. My best wishes for continued success with your property. Vince
Thanks Vince, for the clear delivery of this beautifully thought out and forward thinking process. I really appreciate these videos and look forward to new ones. Very well done.
Thanks Bus. I predict that you will especially enjoy Chapter 3 in this series. It is finished except for a sequence of scenes not yet shot. I believe that it will convey a very powerful conservation message supported by facts and personal experience. By the end of March I should have it live on RUclips. Its title is, "A Forest of Hope." Vince
Thanks for the video Vincent! Can't wait to see more.
Justin, I am working now on Chapter 3 of this series. Most video footage has been shot but I need to shoot a little more. Hope to have it published here this spring. Vince
Thanks for this informative video! Always a pleasure to watch! Thanks Vincent!
You are very, very welcome. Vince
Thanks for sharing this video very well thought out plan, I will be using these ideas in my woodlot thanks again
Denis
Glad it was helpful! Vince
ahhh that video makes me fondly remember my site prep burning days down south. that would make a real niceee fire
Al, I bet it would! Curiously, prescribed burns just are not an element in site prep protocols up here prior to replanting. One large landowner has played around with it a bit but I really couldn't get much solid info on what they learned from one of its foresters. Thanks for your comment. Vince
Keep the videos coming! Thank u
Thank you. Vince
I’m considering doing a clear cut on my land in Quebec. Thanks you for those tips.
If you have a degraded forest like I started with, I am glad that this series has allowed you to consider the option. If what you have contains a good distribution of "stems with a future," I would not advise a clearcut. Thanks and be safe! Vince
Very interesting! Thank you!
My pleasure! Vince
Always a treat when you upload. Since last year I've gotten my sertification so I can deliver timber myself. Plan to do my first logging next winter.
Hey, that is great! Be safe! Vince
Thanks Vince for this very informative video.
Yves, c'est toujours une joie de vous entendre, et continuez de garder les yeux ouverts pour une copie en français de "The Farm Tractor in the Forest." Jusqu'à un autre jour, Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 Good morning Vince. I had not forgotten about the book. I asked a librarian friend of mine to look into it and the book is not available for sale anymore as far as she could find. She did find out that here is a copy at the Université de Laval library in Montreal and one in Stockholm. If you want to do inquiries, the ISBN is 9185748293 9789185748297. Cheers
Oh, and I just posted a inquiry on a Facebook Forestry group. I'll keep you posted if I get anything
@@yvesjolicoeur747 Yves, I thank you for keeping the book in mind and hope that one day you will bump into a retired forester or extension service agent that might have one. Since what I'd like to do is scan and publish it online in PDF format for free download, same as I did for the English version, borrowing a copy from a distant library imposes too many challenges. We will eventually trip across the French version. Cheers! Vince
Very good Vincent, it may look very disturbed but it will be a very viable forest. Take care friend.
Thank you, Mark. Since publishing my videos always lags months behind shooting the video footage, I can happily say that I have footage that proves how correct you are. By the end of March I should have live on RUclips Chapter 3 in this series and, God willing, Chapter 4 not long after that. Thanks for you comment. Vince
I love all your videos
Thank you, Glade. I will be the first to admit that people surfing RUclips for entertainment will find my videos tedious and boring. Comments like yours affirm that I have reached my intended audience, or rather student body, of thoughtful conservation minded folks similarly devoted to making a difference in their own small way and who find my videos informative. Thanks again. Vince
Thank you for sharing, your vids are always educational.
I found your channel, looking for tractor logging winch information. I now have an Igland 3501 winch, and will be cleaning up my messy little 10 acres.
A messy little 10 acres can be turned into a showpiece! In many ways 10 acres is a Goldy Locks woodlot. Not too big, not too small, just right! Good luck and above all, be safe in the woods! Vince
Mark, thanks for your comment and I am also confident that it will. Vince
Can you show us the conditions of the trails after Joshua made them. I like to see them four years later
Joshua, oddly enough I never thought of taking any video footage of the trails after they were made. I am going to keep your comment in my follow-up list so that i will remember to shoot some video clips or at least a few still pics this summer. If you don't see them on my channel by this coming autumn, please remind me. Thanks! Vince
Do you know why they do not do broadcast burns anymore?
Thanks Daniel, for the insightful question. By the way, are you a natural resources professional, perhaps a licensed professional forester? Your question was very timely because I had been meaning to follow-up with a senior forester who works for one of the big forestland companies in Maine that had performed a trial burn two or three years ago. Upon receipt of your question, I promptly called him. My own readings over the years informed me that here in northern Maine any sort of silvicultural burning has been a very rare thing. Moreover, there is extremely little and far from what I would consider meaningful research published by the academic sector on the topic. In some writings I have encountered the term "asbestos forest" to describe the history and conditions within the forests of our region. Unlike the western USA and western Canada, natural fire was a very rare thing here; and unlike the southeastern USA, indigenous peoples, except in isolated settings, did not employ fire to maintain hunting or agricultural grounds. In fact, researchers have identified vast areas without evidence of fire in more than a thousand years. During the 19th and first half of the 20th century things changed as the result of heavy logging and its resulting sudden accumulation of fuel in the form of harvest debris. Careless human activity to include ember spewing railroad locomotives sparked devastating fires. One of the most devastating was the Miramichi Fire of 1825. "The "asbestos forest's" pre-European settlement rarity of fire had nothing to do with fire resistant species of which it has extremely few. It was primarily related to climatic conditions and the pattern of natural disturbances that were not conducive to natural fires. Moving now to fire as a silvicultural tool. Broadcast burning following clearcut harvests, where used elsewhere in North America, is used primarily to facilitate reforestation by hand-planting crews. In the south, I believe but have not researched to confirm, that that benefit disappeared with the transition in the closing years of the 20th century from chainsaw felling and delimbing that left logging slash heavily and evenly distributed over the harvest site to mechanical harvesting methods where logging slash gets concentrated at delimbing gates and log landings. As that slash accumulates and begins to get in the way, grapple skidders will grab a wad and deposit it back in the harvest block, commonly in soft areas of skid trails. It never gets distributed over the harvest site in a way that can support a fire. Just this past autumn my consulting forester for Bombadil Nutzwald in Georgia invited me to join him at a clearcut harvest underway on another client's land. When I questioned Bob regarding any plans to employ fire in his site preparation prior to replanting, he pointed out to me that there was not enough fuel distributed over the harvest sight for fire to offer any benefit. Not only could we easily walk through the harvested area confirming that slash would not impede hand-planting crews, but Bob pointed out that a fire would have a hard time spreading and even sustaining itself because of the patchy distribution of fuel. Back in northern Maine, Shawn, the senior forester that I mentioned earlier, informed me that his company's experiment with broadcast burning involved a clearcut harvest site with a uniformly distributed heavy fuel load of slash comparable to what my video shows on my property. He further confirmed that the purpose was to facilitate reforestation by hand-planting crews that would otherwise not only have to fight their way through tangles of slash but would have a difficult time finding openings in which to plant seedlings. After allowing the slash to dry for one year, the broadcast burn successfully cleared the site adequately for replanting. He also told me that they experimented with broadcast distribution of seed over part of the burned area that proved to be a failure. Shawn also described a subsequent plan to burn a harvested site as part of an ongoing research project with the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit of the University of Maine. After organizing all the logistics and obtaining a burn permit from the Maine Forest Service, a day or two before the set date two inches of rain fell which cancelled the entire event. Although the earlier burn was considered a success, weather in that case kindly cooperated. This offers an insight into a very problematic thing here in northern Maine where climate conditions offer very limited opportunities to burn. First, the ground is typically covered with snow from November through April and often into May. It is seldom before July that the ground and fuel upon it has dried out enough to sustain a burn. By October conditions are predictably too wet. That leaves mid-July to mid-September as the only window of opportunity. However, the preparation logistics that include bulldozing firebreaks, obtaining a burn permit that, by Maine Forest Service policy, is issued for a specific date, organizing firefighting crews and equipment to be on hand in case the fire escapes its intended bounds, and a handful of other logistical issues means that if rain forces you to cancel the burn, you have wasted time and money and must wait until the following year to try again. As the saying goes, "The devil is in the details." This reply is probably a lot longer than you expected, but you impress me as a truly interested and knowledgeable fellow who wasn't looking for a simplistic answer. I hope that my reply answered your question. If not, let me know and I will try to fill in the gaps. Thanks again! Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 Vince, that was a very detailed response. Thank you for it. To answer your question, I worked in silviculture for 8 seasons mainly in the Northern Boreal forest in Western Canada but also in the alpine and coastal rainforests. I worked alongside professional foresters, but have no formal instruction in forestry myself.
My understanding was that broadcast burns were very common at one point but fell out of favor for some reason. Young conifer seedlings always seemed to thrive when planted in burns and it seems like it may be cheaper to do a broadcast burn in many cases instead of scarification, mounding, trenches, drags, etc. On the other hand, many areas in which I worked were susceptible to forest fires, which would make broadcast burning seem like a bad idea.
Your videos are very informative and I am using them for guidance now that I have my own forest to manage. Thanks again!
@@DanielBelzil Daniel, thank you for sharing your background, and it confirms my hunch that you are knowledgeable and experienced in these things. My best wishes for a long and loving relationship with your forest, and I look forward to hearing from you again in the future. Vince
I've always considered a clear cut a crying shame in my opinion but that's just me I for one as a logger will never clear cut nor will I ever recommend it
Adam, I decided to make this series to explore the situations where a forest has been so repeatedly degraded by human interventions resulting from erroneous thinking and misguided concepts that what remains is something that nature alone will not correct in several hundred years. I, like many, have a gut level aversion to the very word "clearcut." That's why it took me and my forester a full 10 years to make the decision. Apparently you did not watch Chapter 1 of this series nor Chapters 3 or 4. I encourage you to watch and ponder the decision making that Chapter 1 of this series explores and then Chapter 3 followed by Chapter 4. I predict that that you will then see that you and are are not at odds in this case. Vince