When do trees stop growing? The question may be asked by woodlot owners looking to harvest their timber or curious minds who gaze into the tree tops and wonder. In truth, trees never actually stop...
Category: Silviculture
While partial harvests can appear to be a gentle and light-handed approach to forestry, "selective" harvesting can be extremely destructive and deleterious to long-term sustainable and profitable...
When talking to a forester or logger, you may hear them refer to a "stand," but what exactly is a "stand?" A stand in forestry refers to a group of trees comparable in species composition, stem...
White pine shelterwood in Maine Shelterwood cutting is a multiple-entry method of timber harvesting focused on establishing regeneration. A shelterwood cut only partially harvests the canopy of a...
Sometimes, there are just too many trees on a given acre of forest. Excessive competition can choke out individuals and hamper timber growth for decades. Foresters and woodlot owners use...
There are few practices in forestry that draw public ire quite like clearcutting, and understandably so, but is clearcutting bad? Properly implemented, clearcutting can be a great tool to harvest...