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Two years after logging... ugh!
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<blockquote data-quote="Moonman" data-source="post: 4499696" data-attributes="member: 13431"><p>This is only my limited experience and it's not much. I've was awarded through the nrcs to get a forest management plan and used a forester to draw up my 10 year plan. We are planning around a 30 acre cut of trees anywhere from 75 years and up of mainly white oaks and red oaks. Part of the plan will be leaving certain trees for natural regeneration for the oaks. Once they get to an established height, we will then cut the seed trees to finish opening up the canopy. So I'm applying for my grants for next year and the part of the plan is to do a controlled burn. Before we do the burn, I'll be using my forester to go through with his team and hack and squirt all the invasives (privet, sourwood ,etc) so that it will be dead by late summer. Late summer we will do a cot rolled burn to clean the understory up and then we will have the harvest done at the time that we can have the most acorn to bare ground rate. We have 2 5 acre sections that is nothing but junk and they will be completly killed off and replanted in short leaf pine. Also there is a prescription for every 2-3 years we do prescribed burns. So based on that, I think controlled burns will be the best option to clean it up. If you have any undesirable species go ahead and kill them so that the burn will get them cleaned up. We also have 15-20 acres of grassland and we are going to kill it all and replant with native grasses. I think it depends allot on your goals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moonman, post: 4499696, member: 13431"] This is only my limited experience and it's not much. I've was awarded through the nrcs to get a forest management plan and used a forester to draw up my 10 year plan. We are planning around a 30 acre cut of trees anywhere from 75 years and up of mainly white oaks and red oaks. Part of the plan will be leaving certain trees for natural regeneration for the oaks. Once they get to an established height, we will then cut the seed trees to finish opening up the canopy. So I'm applying for my grants for next year and the part of the plan is to do a controlled burn. Before we do the burn, I'll be using my forester to go through with his team and hack and squirt all the invasives (privet, sourwood ,etc) so that it will be dead by late summer. Late summer we will do a cot rolled burn to clean the understory up and then we will have the harvest done at the time that we can have the most acorn to bare ground rate. We have 2 5 acre sections that is nothing but junk and they will be completly killed off and replanted in short leaf pine. Also there is a prescription for every 2-3 years we do prescribed burns. So based on that, I think controlled burns will be the best option to clean it up. If you have any undesirable species go ahead and kill them so that the burn will get them cleaned up. We also have 15-20 acres of grassland and we are going to kill it all and replant with native grasses. I think it depends allot on your goals. [/QUOTE]
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