I think we have a few foresters on the site, and quite a few forest owners. This would be a place to discuss forestry related topics that aren't necessarily related to firewood - pest management, wildlife habitat, trail building and maintenance, etc.
I'm not any of the above but I would enjoy reading what landowners have to say. I like zaps posts when he's working his property
Sorry I just saw this post!!! I missed the page a few weeks ago I see!! Yea forestry forum is a great place. I been there for about a decade now. Not very active and its not got a huge following but great guys and great advice. I had e my little forester designation under my name there . From tree id to taxes to management to insects to sawmills its all there. Was actually the first place I found years ago when messing with saws for some reason. They have an annual pig roast every year. I would love to go bit its in michigan.
Haha Yea that would be good. I thought he was redirecting us to forestryforum.com which is a real forum.
My question is would it be so different from the firewood neighbourhood that it needs its own forum, or would it be redundant and just confusing to know where to post.
I don't think it would be confusing for members to choose the right forum if it was grouped next to the neighborhood and sawyer room. What I think it does is raise the visibility of posts on that topic. So I think thats the real question - does it warrant its own topic here or are we not quite that kind of site at this time? Maybe it wouldn't get enough posts to even justify a separate forum.
Griz forestry question are different that look at this truck load I cut or what tree is this. A forestry question is like my trees are 16 years old and pulp prices are very strong in market. Should I clear cut today or should I thin like normal or carry the rotation out to 32 like I had planned. Or I have sour then pine effecting 32 of my 60 acres of planted pine. Should I clear cut it all today to avoid further losses and cut my losses or should I salvage what I have put A buffer on it and hope they dont spread further this year or next.
How bad is the Emerald Ash Borer in your parts, they are just getting to NH. Three counties under hardwood quaratine up here,
We are also on the northern range of the Hemlock Algedid, an important tree cuz it keeps the brook trout streams cool.
It's closing in... I'm about halfway between Buffalo and Rochester, NY, and there are some large quarantine zones around those cities. If I drive about 30 miles south of my house, all the ash trees seem to be dying or dead. I have tons of them too - it's probably my second most common species behind red maple. I have a couple of pure stands of it that go on for acres - it seems to dominate the lower spots on my property.
We are eat up with the Hemlock woolly adelgid. Its sad when I go into the mountains to see the dead and infected ones :-(
It came from California , like all good things . I can't remember its original place or country but it I believe as of years ago it had not yet been discovered anywhere other than like a nursery or shipment or something . Thats where they theorize it came from is a nursery and then it was shipped around on host plants and dispersed. I dont think its this way yet. Also we have no big outbreaks of gypsy moths!!
And see down here our forests...if not pine which is lots of our acres now , our woods are dominated by oak/hickory. Thats the hardwood forest type we describe it as down here. Those are your main trees. We have Ash but it is so uncommon no one unless you have a big yard tree would really miss it.
The Ash Borer got here about 2 years ago. Now the city's around here are either cutting them down & replacing them or trying to medicate them....