White Oak Sustainability pt. 2 - Regeneration (Virtual Upland Hardwood Tour) 

On my small wood lot, I have in the past kept white oaks from harvest to save for acorn production. I am preparing another timber harvest and will let go some of the larger ones that seem to be on the decline. Trying to balance current harvest value, future value, and wildlife considerations. Enjoyed the video.

Great videos, I wish I'd seen this 15 years ago when I was starting to intensively manage my white oak stands. Our white oak stands are slowly but surely converting to lesser-value hardwoods, usually species that have less value to people and generate less hard mast for wildlife. It's going to take a serious effort by researchers, foresters and landowners to change that. If we landowners can come to understand and apply the concepts of site index, thinning, prescribed fire and final rotation (yes, that means clear-cut, but intelligent clear-cutting) we can create sustainable oak growth/harvest conditions. We're not there yet. Right now most of us landowners are simply cutting down the big oaks that past management actions of wildfire and heavy cutting left us. Those big oaks will be just a memory someday unless we can regenerate the next forest for future generations.