Clearcutting as a Silvicultural Option in Family Forests Northeast USA - Chapter 3 A Forest of Hope
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2021
- Chapter 3 of this series visits a beautiful young forest whose life began on severely degraded and abused land in the Piedmont of northwest Georgia.
Always waiting for the next chapter. Be well.
Thank you. I hope that you found it informative. Vince
My friend Vincent happy to see you again. Always an very educational vidéo! Thanks for sharing your knowledges
Merci Michel, mais je suis ravi de vous entendre à nouveau. Profitez du retour du printemps aux latitudes nordiques. Merci une fois de plus. Vincent
Informative and educating as always!
Thank you for sharing both your knowledge and your enthusiasm for sustainable agriculture and forestry.
Its good to hear from you again, Beowulf, and I truly appreciate your comment. Vince
Thank you monsieur Le Professeur. Always great to watch your video and soak in your knowledge and experience. It also is a good reminder of how fragile the land is and how we should always keep this in mind. Thanks
Yves, c'est toujours une joie particulière de vous entendre, et cela me permet de prétendre que je suis bilingue en trichant avec Google translate. Au fait, fait-il une traduction respectable? À titre de comparaison, vous trouverez ci-dessous le texte anglais que j'ai entré dans Google Translate. Yves, it is always a special joy to hear from you, and it allows me to pretend that I am bilingual by cheating with Google translate. By the way, does it do a respectable translation? For comparison, below is the English text that I entered into Google translate. How did I, or rather it, do? My best regards, Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 Hi Vince, OMG, you can now move to Quebec with the way you talk...lol. Google translate does an awesome job. I cheat often and use it when writing reviews and wanting to have them bilingual. It saves me from retyping in second language. I always reread and often have to do slight adjustments but overall it gets the message across.
@@yvesjolicoeur747 Merci beaucoup! C'est bon à savoir, car Google Translate n'est pas aussi performant dans toutes les langues. Merci encore! Vince
Well done Vincent. Take care.
Mark, thank you. As you well know from this series, my obvious aim is to reach other small, private woodlot owners who, like me, have a gut level aversion to clearcutting but also have woodlots so degraded by past abusive practices that cleaning the slate and starting over may very well be the best option to restore a forest with a future. If you know any such woodlot owners, please refer them to this video series to assist them in their decision making. Be safe! Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 I’m one of them, I have over 100 acres in WV and it has not been select cut in 50 years and it needs done. Oaks both white and red with veneer. The land I live on now I have did a good job located In Ohio. Thanks for your very useful knowledge you are sharing.
What a excellent series of videos! I have learned alot by your multiple series already. If you are ever searching for a topic for a video I would love to see and hear your thoughts on pre commercial thinning with spacing saws and such! Keep up the great work!
Eric, Thank you for your comment. It means a lot to me discovering that my videos make a difference to other private woodlot owners faced with similar challenges. I doubt if I will ever make a video on precommercial thinning using brush or spacing saws simply because I may no longer be alive by the time our newly established stands in Maine might benefit from such a practice! However, decades ago the benefit was indisputably established in Scandinavia, the Canadian Maritimes, and here in Maine primarily in overstocked naturally regenerated stands. In the case of plantations, if the initial spacing is not too tight and you are lucky enough to see your new trees get their heads well above the eventual competition from natural regeneration, then you won't be performing a precommercial thinning. That's the typical scenario with fast growing loblolly pine in the south where precommercial thinning is a rarity. Done right, by around age 13 loblollies have beaten the competition and grown into some decent sized trees ready for an income producing pulpwood thinning. By age 20 to 25 they are ready for another commercial thinning that yields dimension lumber and by 30 to 35 some hefty saw and plywood logs. In northern Maine we are not so lucky and commonly need to bring in the spacing saw around age 15 for a precommercial thinning if we want to get a 6-inch tree at 25 to 30 years. Thanks again! Vince
Hello Mr. Vincent Le Professeur! Hope everything is going well on your side. I was thinking about you today. We are having very nice weather for logging since a few weeks now. I sure do take advantage of that. Can't wait to see another educative video from yours! Thanks! Joe.
Joe, it is great to her from you! Last time we corresponded was several months ago if I remember correctly and we discussed erosion. This current video certainly offers a very illustrative historical example of devastating erosion in Georgia, and I hope that you found it interesting and informative. I have been on Bombadil Tree Farm in Maine for the past three weeks involved in this winter's harvest. The snow depth right now is perfect but, with today's storm ready to hit and another one predicted for later in the week, it will likely be deep enough to slow me down but not make things unsafe. I'm enjoying immensely the new radio controlled winch that I bought last May, a Tajfun EGV 45 AHK. Please refresh my memory. Aren't you in northern Wisconsin? Dawn just broke and I should be in the woods taking advantage of these good conditions. Goodbye for now! Vince
Hello sir! No I am in Québec, near to Sherbrooke. We have a bit of snow today, not much accumulation is expected for the next few days. That is a great winch to have! I plan to have a winch one day... and I was also thinking of a radio-controlled one. I think a good benefit of it is that you have a better view of the direction of the tree and can prevent a snag. Thanks!
@@FromSteelToWood Veuillez accepter mes excuses, Joe. Alors vous devez être bilingue et comprendre cela. Je dois admettre que je ne le suis pas et j'espère que "Google translate" fait du bon travail en me faisant paraître bilingue. La région de Sherbrooke est magnifique et j'aime particulièrement la région entre elle et la frontière du Maine. Je crois qu'ils appellent cette région les cantons de l'Est. Je vous souhaite, ainsi qu'à votre famille, une nouvelle année merveilleuse et prospère. Vince
Thanks! Google did a great job! You are right about "Cantons de l'Est". They are also known as Eastern Townships. There are many people speaking English in that region, as they were initially populated by the Loyalists. Best wishes to you and your family!
Fascinating, educational, and inspiring - thank you!
As I clean up my land, I will apply good practices, as well as I understand.
Glad it was helpful! Vince
Chapter 3 has been much anticipated. Looking forward to more videos in the future. Congratulations
It is always a special treat to receive a comment from a mariner, especially a mariner who also has a love for the forest. Thank you! Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 I have 250 acres in SW Nova Scotia I am caring for as my hobby/legacy. All your videos and opinions expressed are spot on. Congratulations again
@@JMLBatSEA In case you have not already accessed it, I highly recommend the "Woodlot Management Home Study Program" offered by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. There is none better. It is well over 500 pages long and presented in 13 separate lessons or "Modules." By its very length and depth it is for seriously interested students, and it sounds like that describes you. The download link is woodlot.novascotia.ca/content/woodlot-management-home-study-program. If you plan to do much work within your woodlot using a farm tractor, then I also encourage you to view my earlier videos on that subject and download the book, "The Farm Tractor in the Forest." It is available for free download at www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/general_publications/farm_tractor_in_the_forest.pdf. Be safe! Vince
@@bombadiltreefarms314 yes I have every volume at home, I agree it's the best. What are the chances part 4 of this series is coming soon? I have a feeling there will be some site prep to get ready for planting
@@JMLBatSEA I have already shot most of the footage for Chapter 4, and it includes some site prep. The intervening two growing seasons since our 2019 winter harvest have offered some very pleasant and amazing surprises. Those surprises relate to some wonderful natural regeneration on many acres. As a result, I'll only be site prepping and planting about one-third of the total harvested area. Trouble is that I probably won't find the time to cut, glue, and edit all the photos and footage into a finished product until next March. That customary delay is always a bit of frustration to me, especially as I lose more of my kick with each passing year yet can't seem to take on fewer rather than more projects. For example, I spent all yesterday afternoon with a forester here on Bombadil Nutzwald working out a 15-year harvest, thinning, and replanting schedule. Next Wednesday I return to Maine for four to six weeks of spring work that includes planting the first 3,000 spruce seedlings in the 2019 harvest area. I need about a week in the "editing room" to finish Chapter 4, and that might happen before next March. You never know. It's always good to hear from you, and thanks for the encouragement. Vince
Very informative! That took 20 years in Georgia to grow such large pines. What about our northern climate? Would that need 30-40 years? Have you ever covered the subject of sediment management in forests? Where I live, the previous owner managed to have ditches throughout the forest to drain excess water. And he made basins to accumulate sediments that would otherwise go directly in the brook. What else to know (for a new owner like me) about that? Thanks!
Yes, you are right. Depending on species, 30 to 40 Years, and much longer for the northern hardwoods. Issues surrounding managing sediment runoff in forests of my region of northern Maine focus primarily on runoff from logging roads and log landings. Road ditch diversions or turn-outs and settling basins are part of Best Management Practices (BMP) for these scenarios. Draining wetlands for the conversion to agriculture or different forest types has everywhere fallen out of favor because of environmental concerns so the kind of thoughtful planning demonstrated by your previous owner rarely if ever occurs anymore. Ironically, conversion of wetlands to parking lots, shopping centers, and subdivisions continues far too often. Multiple studies in Maine and elsewhere performed many years ago confirmed that tree removal after harvest did not increase soil erosion or sediment laden run-off unless the ground surface was torn up with ruts. Barren and compacted road and log landings were the source of such run-off. You can download a free copy of Maine's BMPs for Forestry, "Protecting Maine's Water Quality", from www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/publications/handbooks_guides/bmp_manual.html. The most recent edition is 2017. That link also lists a French language version of an earlier edition. I predict that this manual will answer just about every question that you might have on the subject. Enjoy your studies and be safe! Vince
Thanks Vincent! That is really appreciated! Each bit of information is useful for me! Thanks!