Four Ways Logging Can Benefit Your Forest

Four Ways Logging Can Benefit Your Forest

As a landowner, logging can be one of the most consequential decisions you make for your land and forest. Thus, it is common to have apprehension over the decision and worry that logging will be irreversibly damaging to your beloved forest. While this can be a real concern, done responsibly with careful silvicultural considerations, logging…

The Ultimate Guide to Thinning Your Forest

The Ultimate Guide to Thinning Your Forest

Thinning your forest is one of the most important silvicultural operations you can conduct on your land. It is an intermediate treatment that focuses on selectively removing trees to reduce competition and allow residual trees to flourish. However, the process is more complicated than simply cutting out a few trees. The stand dynamics and silvics…

Selective vs Selection Cutting: Mind the Difference

Selective vs Selection Cutting: Mind the Difference

There is a common confusion between two terms commonly used in forestry: Selective cutting and selection cutting. While the two terms are often used interchangeably (usually by laymen), they couldn’t be more different. Selective cutting is a non-specific description of partial harvesting that usually refers to high-grading or other destructive harvesting practices. Selection cutting, however,…

What Is the Most Sustainable Way to Harvest Timber?

What Is the Most Sustainable Way to Harvest Timber?

Sustainability is at the core of modern forestry. Foresters and landowners take great strides to ensure timber harvests are healthy and sustainable. Over the last century, the science of forestry has developed a number of types of timber harvests and silvicultural systems to help accomplish just this. These harvest systems include clearcuts, shelterwood cuts, seed…

Why Logging and Timber Companies Plant Trees

Why Logging and Timber Companies Plant Trees

In the United States and most of the developed world, when timber harvesting is not deforestation. Today’s forest industry is probably one of the most sustainable industries in the world, as tremendous efforts are taken to maintain healthy forests and a sustainable supply of timber. Toward this end, logging and timber companies often plant trees…

Do Maples Produce Acorns? No, They Produce Samaras!

Do Maples Produce Acorns? No, They Produce Samaras!

We are all familiar with maple trees and their majesty. We know their regal fiery orange autumnal colors and the rich (in more ways than one) maple syrup their sap produces. But who could forget about their–acorns!? Not so much. Maple trees do not produce acorns. Instead, they produce samaras, which you might know by…