Alternative Lumber Harvesting Methods Like Shelterwood

Every forest has a story to tell. By looking closely at its habitants, that story can be interpreted. Much of this narrative is written in the trees: their age, their tolerance to shade, and the rate at which they grow are all characteristics that can imply a lot about their environment. Exploring these relationships and how they connect with each other can indicate the health and history of the land. Heiberg Forest, located in northern New York, was once used for agricultural purposes in the 1800-1900’s. (Nowak, Lecture Notes) Much of the land once used for farming was left to regrow back into a young forest. The life history of different tree species can be determined by examining the most common species in Heiberg.

The human activity that is used in lumber and timber harvesting is forestry. Humans that work in the forest industry area do lumber/timber harvesting to give other humans their basic needs, wants and values. (ex-wood, paper etc).

The ethics of logging have long been debated by environmentalists and wood manufacturing companies. “ No trees for the future would be dreadful indeed. That's

to switch by making regulations more strict as well as a greater number of them

The forests have an independent watchdog(?) named British Columbia’s Forest Practices Board (BCFPD). The board oversees the activities of forest companies, their private contractors, and the government on public land. The board audits randomly selected forestry companies to be audited for compliance and enforcement with forest practice requirements, audits the enforcement of the government forest practices requirements, addresses public complaints on forestry practices, and conducts special investigations on forestry issues (mr113). All the work that the BCFPD does has led to notable positive changes in BC forestry. Some of these positive changes include: Less disturbance from logging, smaller cut blocks, better logging roads and proper maintenance, and more deactivation of logging roads (mr113). While reports have noted these improvements, the board still believes that there is room for improvement. Policies and changes are continually evolving to make BC’s forest as competitive and sustainable as possible. Some of the changes that are believed to be needed include new policies for efficiency, more timber availability to smaller organizations, such as first nations or small communities to help long-term economic development, and many others(mr113).

37. Question : A tree harvest method which leaves enough trees as a temporary shelter wood over story to provide 40% crown cover is called a:

B. Retaining individual high value trees--for bear dens, raptor nests or as an example of old growth

This document compares and contrasts three future views on timber supply in the southern region of the US as projected by three third-party forecasting service providers – Forest Economic Advisors (FEA), Resource Information Systems Inc. (RISI), and Forisk. All three forecasts lean heavily on data from the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) National Program and Resource Planning Assessments (RPAs) in their projections. In addition, Forisk explicitly breaks down softwood growing stock inventory into pulp, CNS, and sawtimber inventories whereas FEA and RISI are explicit only about sawtimeber and overall softwood growing stock inventories. This further complicates the comparison among the three providers but allows us to gain some insights on the relative shares of the three above components of timber inventory in the South as projected by Forisk.

Lastly, one of the biggest benefits of the Wisconsin’s Managed Forest Law at the state level has been its effects on Wisconsin’s forests’ ecosystems. Within forests, the MFL has helped to provide wildlife habitat for game and threatened/ endangered species, maintain forest ecosystem health and vitality, conserve and maintain water and soil resources on and around forestland, and promote forest conservation and biological diversity (Gass 10). To help aid in creating sustainable forest environments, the Wisconsin MFL requires that landowners follow mandatory practices including: releasing trees from competing vegetation, reforesting land to meet minimum forest density standards, performing pre and post harvest treatments to insure forest regeneration,

Finally Since the 1990s Minnesota has witnessed an astonishing turnaround in the economic impact of its forests through a second forest revolution. Today, the

I am going to discuss what clearcutting does to the eastern United State forests. Clearcutting when conducted correctly can be very beneficial to a forest. By following forestry best management practices (BMP), we can reduce the negative effects of harvesting on the forest. BMP vary from state to state. All state and federal forest land have harvesting permits that must be completed before any harvesting. In Pennsylvania to harvest any state or federal land an Erosion and Sediment Control Plan for a Timber Harvesting Operation (E&S plan) must be filled out. This document lays out the laws and regulations as well as the BMP for harvesting timber. The E&S plan gives instruction on how to construct your timber harvest from construction of bridges, roads, placement of runoff management, filter strips, erosion barriers, and even site cleanup. By following these standards we significantly reduce runoff, erosion, and pollutants in our forest and

To begin, forest based industrialization is based on forest resources that are used to stimulate economic growth and development. One of the products that have been most important to human economies has always been wood. Wood is durable, light weight, easily worked, waterproof, and a good fiber source. Wood is used in almost every aspect of our lives, for building materials, living, and just surviving. We need wood to build our homes to live in and buildings in which we work and spend the other resource that comes from trees “money”. Studies show that 70% of the products that we use a day are made of some kind of wood. If we were to look around our homes and count all the items that are made of wood we would probably find that 60 percent are made of wood. Without wood humans and other species would never be able to survive.

I am appealing to you as a conservationist. I believe that the natural resources of the forest can be of great help to us. As we experience this oil and gas crisis in the US, we are forced to import oil from foreign countries. Thus causing the cost of

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conducted a 13-year-long forestry development research before they achieved planting techniques. So in response to Green Wood’s interest in poplar tree assets, the company offered 82,644 mu for purchase. Green Wood had a prudent strategy for Dongji; it would concentrate on deploying local hybrid varietals testing the suitability of its home-grown elite plant materials and then, due to low annual growth rate in Dongji, it would adopt a 10 year rotation scheme. It would also capitalize on Lideng’s expertise in planting and crop care

Logging tropical hardwoods like teak, mahogany, rosewood and other timber for furniture, building materials, charcoal and other wood products is big business and creates big profits. Several species of tropical hardwoods are imported by developed counties, including America, just to build coffins which are then buried or burned. The demand, extraction and consumption of tropical hardwoods has been so massive that some countries which have been traditional exporters of tropical hardwoods are now importing the wood because they have already exhausted their supply by destroying their native rainforests in slash and burn operations. It is anticipated that The Philippines, Malaysia, The Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Thailand will all run out of rainforest hardwood for export within the next five years.