Low Impact Logging Techniques

Low Impact Logging Techniques

Logging can be a messy process. Forests are sensitive ecosystems, and if not careful, a poorly-managed logging operation can do substantial damage to soils and water, as well as the aesthetic quality of a forest. Fortunately, low impact logging exists to help landowners and loggers manage their land in the most sustainable, environmentally-sound way possible….

Why Is Firewood So Expensive?

Why Is Firewood So Expensive?

Lately, everything seems to be going up in price: gas, cars, food, lumber, and even firewood. But why is firewood so expensive? Don’t trees grow everywhere? While firewood is one of the lowest-grade products in forestry, firewood production requires large expenses in harvesting, trucking, cutting and splitting, drying, and even delivering the finished product, and…

What Is High Grading and Why Is It Harmful?

What Is High Grading and Why Is It Harmful?

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 forest management if the harvests result in high grading. High grading is the practice of removing the highest-value wood from a tract of forest land and leaver less-desirable,…

What Is a Woodlot?

What Is a Woodlot?

If you own or are thinking about owning forest land for yourself, you may have heard the term “woodlot.” A Woodlot is a small parcel of forest land used for timber production and recreation. Typically, the term denotes a smaller parcel–less than 1000 acres–whereas “timberland” might be used to describe larger tracts of forest land….