Fired up the old 51 for a small job. Thinning poplar around the cabin before they get too big, but at least big enough for a little shoulder season firewood. Snow is still hanging around 18-20". Hopefully by the end of April things are better for cutting than 2014 when we got 51" of new snow for the month.
We are 20 miles from the Canadian border in far NE MN, and inland from lake Superior about 1.5 miles.
I expect you have a pretty good amount of popple there. We have some but fortunately not a huge amount.
Yes we have a lot of poplar here Backwoods Savage. I had our neighbor pull over 2oo cord of poplar for pulpwood off just 10 acres of our land. Here is a spread on him in Northern Wilds: "No push-button machines..." 85-Year-Old Logger Just Keeps Cutting | Northern Wilds Magazine The pictures were taken on our land. BTW he is still doing well. This was a few years ago. He finally had to quit logging last year, but it still active fishing and working with his own firewood. Thankfully we also have white birch and black ash on our land, and sugar maple in the area that I have access to. The poplar is good for shoulder season heating, or through winter if you are right there to keep loading the stove more often. It is also a beneficial species for grouse and deer.
We have a weird situation. I had some popple chipped off a few years back and nothing grew back! Always when you cut that stuff it usually comes back thicker than ever but in our case, nothing came back. Unsure what caused this.
That is not typical here either. Ours is growing in thick with young trees, grasses, ferns, and red osier now. It is a great deer feeding area. One thing that happens here to a lot of the over-mature poplar forests is that they get taken over by a lot of balsam and black spruce. Our land hadn't been logged since the 50s so it was overdue for a "release."
