Recent logging pics
- Thread starter ruskbucks
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I was able to get up to the land and check out the recent logging operation in action. I was extremely happy with the work both the logger and forester had done so far. The first pic and the one under it are after the select cut was all done.The top right pic is one of the small around 1 acre clear cuts that was done. This area was mostly mature aspen with hundreds of small balsams taking over the understory. The balsams were great cover,but I wasn't hurting for that anyway. Hopefully these clear cut areas will come back in thick with better trees such as oak,maple,and aspen instead of balsam. The balsams were starting to take over the understory and blocking out all the light were there was hardly any regeneration of other trees.
Big Snow Man
5 year old buck +
Nice they laid the tops down so the new growth won't get browsed on.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Looks great RB !! The big bottom pic looks like our woods did after timbering. Deer moved in and browsed the tops big-time and bedded right in them. They were in them the night we finished cutting. I'll bet you're gonna be happy with the cuts. Sunlight does wonders.
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
I got 7 acres of heavily invested 45 year old balsam getting cut next winter. The sale contract just went thru. It was a great spot 15 years ago when there was still grass growing among the trees but now you can get on your knees and see 100 yds.
Big Snow Man
5 year old buck +
Steve
Any ideas on what your going to plant to help move the process along ?
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
Honestly..I wont' be planting anything. They will leave a few seed trees, but I am more excited about just having it grow thick with brush and grass. Grass cover....although just canary grass...is extremely rare these days around my land since everything is grazed too hard. Good grass will help hold them even more in the fall. I got the cover...I got the food....Its the wolves showing up every 18 days that kills me. Nothing I can do about that. While their are tasty beef calves only 400 yards away from my land. Their going to keep coming. They came to try and trap them after they killed a few calves, buy they got nothing this year. They are too smart this year.
Big Snow Man
5 year old buck +
The reason I ask is that when I drive around and see cedar and balsam swamps that have been logged as much as five years ago almost look the same today as they did when the logging crew left. Nothing has grown back because the ground is so acidic.
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
I am hoping by leaving a few seed trees that I will get some regeneration. However there are young birch and various other trees growing. Solid peat soil but stuff does grow. Before all the trees died in 1976....it was a vigorous tamarack forest. There has not been a tamarack tree growing for 35 years.
bueller
Moderator
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
Oh there will be pictures taken...before...during...and after...........
All the Tamarack Trees died from the drought of 1976
All the Tamarack Trees died from the drought of 1976
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
What kinds of birch do you guys in Wisc. and Minn. have growing out there ?? I guess it's safe to assume white birch, but do you have others too ??
After a logging my camp did 18 yrs. ago, we had white, black, and yellow birch come up like weeds. Thick area for free.
After a logging my camp did 18 yrs. ago, we had white, black, and yellow birch come up like weeds. Thick area for free.
John-W-WI
Administrator
On more upland sites white birch seems to come first for me. Yellow birch generally only shows up in more moist locations and never as thick as white.
-John
John-W-WI
Administrator
Big Snow - I've had the same thing happen on my property. In one spot the forester even told me it wouldn't regen well. He was right, it's been 6 or 7 years and hardly a tree has come back. The same situation in an upland location is a jungle in the same amount of time.
Would lime help?????
-John
Big Snow Man
5 year old buck +
Basically after logging last year and sitting in a stund not far from the clear cut I found some areas of poor regeneration. So I'm going to be like Johnny Appleseed and plant plugs of red pine scotch pine plugs and some spruce. I will plant that area randomly this spring to jump start the growth. I did the same last year in the area that had some oak wilt. We only have so many days on this earth so the faster I can get cover the better the hunting. Maybe 5-6 years I hope. I think lime would be impractical and there may not be a good seed bank in those areas.
Did he give a reason why he knew it would not regenerate well? Was the soil bad,lack of seed, to wet?
John-W-WI
Administrator
I don't recall him saying exactly why... It was pretty matter of fact the way he said it though.
-John
Steve Oehlenschlager
5 year old buck +
I honestly wouldn't care if mine regenerated or not as it is a 7 acre piece and tall nasty thick grass with some brush is a rarity these days. Everything is now pastured so heavy that grass cover is a magnet for me. Based in the regeneration of surrounding areas it will regenerate fine. Possibly failure for regeneration could be from being too wet?
John-W-WI
Administrator
I'm sure being wet/too wet has a lot to do with it Steve.
The area I am talking about is full of grass now, so you should be happy either way!
-John
