[Wibb]

So are you gents following an MDC prescribed TSI program provided by a forester? Curious as I had one completed a few years back. I didn't sign up for cost share at that time but an interested now. My understory is littered with maples, so thick in places it's dark in the heat of summer.

Are you all felling/hinging those or just ringing? Are you just using a backpack sprayer?

Cool project!

 

[Wibb]

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How do you interpret these prices? Is that based on a certain length, size of log, etc?

Interesting even for those other species. If I could get $100 for a maple, I'd be cutting them down now. I have 30 acres where it's been logged previously yet the maples were left standing and are taking over.

 

[Wibb]

I wish I'd be better about before and after pics. We've made a couple of huge strides in our TSI this year after spending 3 years just cutting cedar. We cherry picked the best south & southwest slopes for bedding areas. It's nice to move onto hard/whitewood species and cover some acres. Spending weekends cutting in a dense cedar thicket is just not all that much fun, necessary evil but just not much fun.

So what do you look for/focus on on these south facing slopes.

 

[Wibb]

So this is probably a dumb question, but are you all marking these trees during the growing season in some way or another? I can pretty easily tell the bark apart with mature trees, but struggle with young ones.

I get paranoid of cutting down young oaks by mistake. Just curious how others are doing it or if they just know the trees better than I.