Hey Joe,
While I appreciate the cooler weather and the greatly increased tree
growth with all this rain, I haven't been able to get one logging crew
on my lots all summer!
And while I was marking a lot today, I got rained out again. A miserable
freakin' soakin' to the bone!
It's really disappointing not because I get rained out but if I had been
able to have all my lots cut then the residual stands and regeneration
would have exploded in beautiful growth. By not having these lots done
this summer, I feel like it's a lost opportunity. But what am I gonna
do? I can't have skidders, shears, and trucks on a lot that will rut the
hell out of the property. I wish I could send Lee and all his Minnasooda
friends who talk kinda funny some of this rain.
I'm more than halfway through marking this 60 acre lot in Westminster,
MA that was at the epicenter of last December's devastating ice storm.
This lot suffered a vicious highgrade about 15 years ago and after the
ice storm well that would be called a double whammy that you wouldn't
wanna wish on any forest!
So for the first time in my life I'm marking the trees to be left rather
than the trees to be cut. Other than having to climb over all this damn
jackstraw, it's much more efficient marking the leave trees especially
since I'm not doing any tallying because it's all chipwood. I'll just
estimate the volume and give the operator a number.
I'll probably take out up to 75% of the volume which sounds like a lot
but I have no choice - lots of crappy and broken red maple, black birch,
hemlock, and white pine. But there is some good scattered red oak that
hadn't been topped too severely as well as some big pine and hemlock
that survived the storm (and the highgrading timber thief!). So after
the biomass harvesting operation is done, this forest will have a good
future!
Hey while I was marking the leave trees, I noticed old paint on a lot of
the trees that the highgrader marked to be cut but I'm marking to be
left. Why the hell was he even marking any trees if he was gonna jack
the lot?! Oh I know he needed the burro's John Hancock on the cut
"plan".
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Zorzin
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:41 PM
To: ENTS
Subject: [ENTS] rain and growth rates?
Now that this is year is one of the wettest on record,
at least in the northeast, just how much can we expect tree growth rings
to reflect this fact? That is- if it rains twice as much as typical,
during the growing season, will that result in a ring twice as wide?
Probably not, but I wonder what sort of relationship there is between
these 2 variables.
I started thinking about this as I notice the trees in
my backyard showing what appear to be greater growth at the top than
previous years- especially noticeable on white and pitch pine leaders.
Joe
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