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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5509832" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>To show the power of cutting timber in a hardwood environment, below is a graph of my local deer population since 2003 (displayed on a 3-year running mean to take out highs and lows caused by small annual data sets). Notice the big jumps in population about 3 years after a timber cut, followed by a decline in population. That is due to the food sources created by opening the canopy peaking three summers after the timber is thinned/removed, then declining in volume as saplings canopy out sunlight from the ground. I hope to slow the post-peak decline this time around by keeping more of the timber cut areas in early-stage regrowth (weeds). In all previous timber cuts, thinned areas were just left to regrow back into forest naturally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5509832, member: 17"] To show the power of cutting timber in a hardwood environment, below is a graph of my local deer population since 2003 (displayed on a 3-year running mean to take out highs and lows caused by small annual data sets). Notice the big jumps in population about 3 years after a timber cut, followed by a decline in population. That is due to the food sources created by opening the canopy peaking three summers after the timber is thinned/removed, then declining in volume as saplings canopy out sunlight from the ground. I hope to slow the post-peak decline this time around by keeping more of the timber cut areas in early-stage regrowth (weeds). In all previous timber cuts, thinned areas were just left to regrow back into forest naturally. [/QUOTE]
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