Gene GeRue wrote:
I have a friend who is taking the next step, improvement forestry. He
low-grades, that is, he only cuts trees that are imperfect, leaving the
finest specimens to spread their seeds.
My concern would be a decrease in genetic diversity over time. It's
possible that strains
Gene GeRue wrote:
I have a friend who is taking the next step, improvement forestry. He
low-grades, that is, he only cuts trees that are imperfect, leaving the
finest specimens to spread their seeds.
Doug Fields:
My concern would be a decrease in genetic diversity over time. It's
possible
The health of the treees in my 10.59 acres is good. An occasioal dead tree
from being smashed in logging 12 years ago and a lot of dead yellow birch
and red maple in the swamp but I attribute that to a water level change as
approximatly 20 years ago my neighbors downstream put a drive way
Doug Fields:
I much prefer a mixed forest
containing many imperfect specimens to the monotony of an "improved"
stand, from both an aesthetic and forest health standpoint. I'm sure
that almost any forester would disagree, but a forest ecologist might
not.
I forgot to respond to an issue this
ForestHaven wrote:
Furthermore, the imperfect trees are often the ones having what we would
call defects, such as weak crotches that eventually result in cavities,
that likely benefit other organisms. I much prefer a mixed forest
containing many imperfect specimens to the monotony of an
Gene GeRue wrote:
But my friend, someone who long fought the good
environmental fight and now refuses to be called one because of the way
modern environmentalists have acted and continue to act, feels that the
best way to preserve forest is to make it economically viable.
No offense meant,
