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Have you ever been in the woods, in a fairly young stand, and seen a few trees in a group or in a line that are obviously much older than the others? Maybe not even the same species as the others?
You're probably seeing one of two things. Either a old field that just had a few trees to shade livestock, that has grown back to a forest, or you are in a stand that was part of a bad logging practice called High Grading. High graded stands are unfortunately really common. Usually it happens when the owner of the stand is driven solely by immediate profits, or they don't want to fully clear their land, or maybe they wanted to do good but made a deal with an unscrupulous logger. No matter the exact reason why, the result is still the same, the highest value trees are cut, and the lowest value or negative value (cost more to cut than they are worth to a mill) are left. This is invariably a bad thing, imagine if a cattle rancher only had their best cattle butchered and had their weakest ones breed? See the issue? (that isn't actually the only issue; the issues with high grades are legion, you could write a book on it)
A way to prevent this a true silvicultural clear cut, where every single stem is cut, and the stand is then allowed to regenerate. It isn't the only way, as silvicultural clear cuts aren't always the best thing to do. Going over every type of harvest is beyond a blurb on DA.
Ran the photo through GIMP "water pixels". Firstly, this filter/script really brought my 880K (well 1 core of it) to its knees. Secondly I love how it came out. Looks like a painting!
Have you ever been in the woods, in a fairly young stand, and seen a few trees in a group or in a line that are obviously much older than the others? Maybe not even the same species as the others?
You're probably seeing one of two things. Either a old field that just had a few trees to shade livestock, that has grown back to a forest, or you are in a stand that was part of a bad logging practice called High Grading. High graded stands are unfortunately really common. Usually it happens when the owner of the stand is driven solely by immediate profits, or they don't want to fully clear their land, or maybe they wanted to do good but made a deal with an unscrupulous logger. No matter the exact reason why, the result is still the same, the highest value trees are cut, and the lowest value or negative value (cost more to cut than they are worth to a mill) are left. This is invariably a bad thing, imagine if a cattle rancher only had their best cattle butchered and had their weakest ones breed? See the issue? (that isn't actually the only issue; the issues with high grades are legion, you could write a book on it)
A way to prevent this a true silvicultural clear cut, where every single stem is cut, and the stand is then allowed to regenerate. It isn't the only way, as silvicultural clear cuts aren't always the best thing to do. Going over every type of harvest is beyond a blurb on DA.
Ran the photo through GIMP "water pixels". Firstly, this filter/script really brought my 880K (well 1 core of it) to its knees. Secondly I love how it came out. Looks like a painting!
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