Woodlot management for beginners, with a focus on sustainable forestry practices. Don't forget to hit Like and Subscribe to see more content like this.
The basic principle in woodlot management for maximizing long-term income is to groom your woods every five to ten years by taking out the the stuff with the least potential for gaining value on each pass and leaving behind the stuff with the most potential to gain value plus some "woodpecker hotels" to house the birds that devour forest pests. Obviously you're not going to do the whole woodlot all at once so you just do a few acres each year. Btw, all that forest deadfall and logging slash is gaining value as a raw material for fuel-wood pellet production for export to Europe and there is a whole new generation of high-efficiency wood-pellet and wood-chip boilers coming out of Europe now, such as Heizomat and Froehling. The provincial government also needs to "get smart" and insist that loggers replant Crown land as a condition of logging and also that all sawmills which draw wood from Crown land must ensure that their wood residues go to a fuel-wood pelleting mill and also that government buildings switch over to heating with automated wood-pellet boiler units. This ain't your grandfather's forestry industry anymore, there's a lot of new technology and economic trends out there which will increase returns to "forest farmers"! 🙂
at 16:35:- That's a right proper "woodpecker hotel"! Honestly I would just brash the lower branches up to 8' with a power pole-saw to give the big machines some working clearance and otherwise leave it for the woodpeckers which do plenty of good work eating forest pests. Yeah, it looks a bit untidy and disorderly but the woodpeckers and chickadees like them like that and please don't underestimate the ability of those little birds in keeping your woodland healthy. 🙂
Good job folks! We live in Knowlesville New Brunswick and we follow the very same principles as you. We are finding a lot of newcomers arriving here partially due to our very affordable land prices.
Those marks on the maple were done by a moose. They drag their teeth down and Peel off the bark. It’s called cribbing. They can damage a lot of young maples in a short time.
I've called moose in the fall just for fun. Come back the next morning and there would be half a dozen trees tore up like this. In the fall they can get quite nasty with those horns.
My family has a 40 that hasn't been cut for at least 60 years. It it is time to start harvesting before we lose some of the value. I'm not equipped to do it myself. I need to find someone like you who will do it respectfully
Reach out to your local university extension office. They should be able to get you in touch with a consulting forester, as well as connecting you with any state incentive programs for woodland owners.
Hello from Florida. I went to high school in the Annapolis valley in Nova Scotia and my Grandfather left me some land that I want to responsiby manage. I am starting from zero knowledge of woodlot management, so am finding these videos extremely helpful and want to thank you for the time you've taken to put them up. We are up visiting the area this week from Florida and tried to walk the land but we were underdressed and not prepared for the bugs and amount of thick cover we had to trek thru so planning on coming up again this winter to survey the land. Can you recommend any other resources and a path to sustainably manage from afar? I think the first order of business is to find an expert to walk the land with me. Problem is I am a litte weary as my grandfather was talked into letting some local guys clearcut back in the early 2000's, and in the end was taken for a ride. Thank you in advance for any help
@@sammcalilly107I have chainsaw oil on my boots. I do great work on woodlots mostly with a work horse. I don't think you know how you sound. Or maybe you do.
@@horseloggermd363i know exactly how i sound. somebody who doesn't know anything about managing woods should call a forester. i might call you, as somebody who knows about managing woods, because you're probably doing it the right way with horse logging. so please don't take offense to my comment, because it wasn't directed at you, it was directed at the industry loggers and meant to help somebody who doesn't know anything. my advice is still good advice for most woodlot owners: find a forester if you own trees and don't know what you're doing. you can argue with that all day but idgaf.
@@horseloggermd363 I'm responding directly to this comment from Nate: "Problem is I am a litte weary as my grandfather was talked into letting some local guys clearcut back in the early 2000's, and in the end was taken for a ride. Thank you in advance for any help" Sounds like he should've called a forester before a logger.
at 20:00:- a "board-foot" of lumber is actually a piece of wood 1" thick x 12" x 12" square and not 1" x 1" x12" which is just a useless little stick:- just say it's 144 cubic inches of un-planed sawn lumber and save yourself reciting this little ancient sawmill "poem"! The number of "board feet" in a saw-log is the actual amount of sawn lumber you can get out of it before planing it so it's a somewhat subjective measurement but both you and the sawmill need to know that number, along with the final grade of the lumber after sawing, so you can establish a fair price for your saw-log.
@@ERLong-ww7yn Yes, but you need to explain that to your viewers, many of whom don't have that background knowledge, and some of whom have an "easy-money, get-rich-quick" attitude when they start imagining millions of dollars of profit in their little 10-acre woodlot. 😉
