Coppice Agroforestry Fundamentals (webinar) 

Outstanding!

Mark, that was a great lecture! thanks!

Am in North Arkansas, and was surprised when I had learned this concept we hill folk had practiced for a long time actually was an old concept and had a name. I maintain several sites where I cut the sick timber back damaged from ice, and it being hardwoods, it triggered all these sprouts. I also have Shiitake logs, and see them as a resource for future mushroom logs. They grow pretty fast here. Thanks.

Thank you. I've been watching the UK woodland management videos for a long time. The US needs to practice using coppiced wood products more as it helps in carbon sequestration and bringing down the warming of our planet.

This is very interesting. I planted a few hybrid poplars 4/5 years ago, I think I will polard a few of them for forage/biomass production.

I think you may be wrong about the potential productivity of a given area of land. If you were to take 1/5th of that coppice would and turn it into charcoal, and another 1/5th cut as ramial (1st year green and leaf wood) to shred for compost to innoculate that charcoal, turning it into biochar, and another 1//5th to use as mulch around each coppice stool for one rotation, you would only get 2/5ths production for that given rotation, but you would make gains in the woodland's ability to hold and store moisture and nutrients that might exceed the land's current capacity as stated near 21 and 22 minutes in this vid. If that was done over 100 or 200 years the land would certainly be more productive. Just a thought.

Will coppicing a tree keep its root system small?

Getting cut back all the time; no wonder the Whomping Willow was cross!