Timber Stand Improvement in Alabama - Pines and Hardwoods - Creating Quality Hunting Habitat
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2023
- If you're a landowner or a wildlife enthusiast in Alabama, you know the importance of maintaining healthy forests to provide quality food and habitat for deer and other wildlife. Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) is a forestry practice that can help you achieve this goal by selectively removing low-quality trees and promoting the growth of high-quality trees.
In this video, we'll focus on TSI techniques for improving pine and hardwood stands in Alabama. We'll discuss the benefits of TSI, such as increasing the value of your timber and improving wildlife habitat, and the steps involved in implementing TSI, including identifying low-quality trees, determining the appropriate time for thinning, and using proper techniques to promote the growth of high-quality trees.
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The key is honesty. Everyone who owns property wants to hear that it is perfect. But it's never is. You need to perfect things and improve!!
Cheers and love the content!!
Yes!
Love that you talked about the seasonality of prescribed fire. Seeing the difference in the plant community response is a really cool thing to show. Love to see promoting both silvicultural prescriptions dovetailed with fire as well. Nicely done!
Im in NE Alabama and this property almost looks identical to mine. The pines, ridges, etc. Good info!!!
Is it best to Rx burn the first dormant season after you thin and then spray? Or should you wait a couple years after thinning to spray? What indicators are you looking for to let you know when to spray?
When to burn or spray depends on the mission. If controlling sweetgums is the mission it's often best to wait a year and then apply the herbicide. I burn the year following the herbicide treatment.
Would be based on the amount of fuel present. Each site will be different.
But what if you only have 2 acres like this and can't bring in thinning equipment what do you do
Joseph - You can use the hack and squirt method to terminate the trees you don't wish to survive.
Can u talk about hogs and turkeys in Alabama
The research findings seem to be mixed - some studies show hogs consume a lot of eggs and others don't find my nest damage. It seems if a hog finds turkey nest the eggs would be consumed or destroyed.
I keep hearing about the same things over and over regarding thinning of canopy, prescribed fire to reduce leaf litter and underbrush. Great stuff but where’s the beef? Where are the studies measuring the benefits of these practices versus the cost of achieving these results. It’s all measurable but nobody’s measuring. Why not? I’m guessing costs are prohibitive if actually measured. Cost to benefit ratios are important here just as they are in other agricultural areas. I’m not saying these practices don’t improve this or that but that alone doesn’t make it a good idea!
Tom - I left the university system years ago. The University of Tennessee Martin and Mississippi State both have several publication about the cost and benefits of prescribed fire. That research is well documented and published.
Looks about as dense as my land..