Phil, We should not spend any tax money having forest bureaucrats "educate" the public about the benefit of using a consulting forester. It should be REQUIRED for a landowner to use a Licensed Forester who will practice good silviculture for ALL commercial timber harvests. This will be better for landowners, the forests, foresters, and yes loggers and mills too.
Mike Joe, I certainly wasn't blaming the owner, but was showing that there is a need to educate the public with regards to the needs of using a consulting forester. This happened about 5-7 years ago. They could have thought hiring a forester was an un-needed expense, but quickly changed their minds. I agree with you about the need for a forester. If you take the word of the logger you're assisting him in clearing only what he deems worth his time and money. However, if you go with a consulting forester you're assisting the very woodlands on your property. Phil -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JZ Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:14 AM To: ENTSTrees Subject: [ENTS] Re: help defeat biomass plants I have trouble understanding how any forest owner under Chapter 61 could not understand how to hire a consulting forester to handle their timbe sale. For beginners, that forest owner had to retain a consulting forester to prepare his chapter 61 mgt. plan. Perhaps the situation you described happened many years ago- but in the past several years, it's been a requirement for land under Chapter 61 to have a licensed forester manage timber sales on chapter land. Or, did that all happen before the owner put the land in Chapter 61? I don't blame the owner for their failure to hire a consultant- I blame the state because the state has strongly supported the timber industry's resistence to requiring a license forester to prepare all cut plans. About a decade ago, when forester licensing began in Mass.- the Director of Forests and Parks, Todd Frederick, wrote in a letter to a consultant that the state won't require a forester to prepare the cut plans because "it would be a revolutionary act against industry"- so, in my opinion, every forest owner who has had his property wrecked and who probably didn't get paid a fair price- should blame the state! Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
