Great ideas love the before-and-after

Very good info on selecting trees to fell!

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you found it helpful!

Great video !!! Thanks 👨🏻👍🏼

Love the channel, I would not advise cutting oaks after leaf out though, we have Oak wilt in our area that can spread if cut after leaf out, these TSI improvements should be done early spring at the latest.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Great advice, thank you sharing!!

Takes about 50 years for white oak to make nut deer love white oaks

Great before and after comparison. How old is that forage that you created behind you in the video? 2 or 3 years old?

@Whitetail_Properties

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe that the cut section was around 2-3 years old. But, even in year one there will be good herbaceous growth.

So do you need to remove the trees or just leave them lay? Also my timber is very hilly, where is the best place to do this, on top of flats, on the sides facing the sun, or bottoms?

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

The location is not super critical, Just as long as you are opening up the canopy enough to allow sunlight in. However, south or east facing slopes that get a little more sunlight are definitely good locations. More important that location is probably choosing an area and selecting the species that meet your objectives.

My forest floor is almost pure thick ferns under the canopy. Will the ferns prevent new growth or be overtaken and recede after a cut? I see the Aspen definitely overtakes them but am concerned about other plants coming up underneath the hardwood portion of my woods. Thanks for any info.

@ChilcoteForestryServices

Жыл бұрын

Hey Rick, ferns wont allow forest regen because they grow a thick mat of roots and shade the forest floor. They die easy when you spray them. Lots of light, no ferns, few deer will regenerate your woods. Chilcote Forestry

I want to do this to about a 5 acre section of timber In my 40. Only thing I wonder, and never see discussed it what do you do 5 years from now. isn't that undergrowth going to get super thick where it's inaccessible?

@usernamehere6061

2 жыл бұрын

You need to have plans for implementing prescribed fire. It is much easier to maintain your TSI efforts with fire as opposed to going in mechanically every 2-3 years. Fire will continue to setback that "super thick" area you're talking about.

Ass long as sunlight can get to the ground it will grow but once the canopy blocks its over

@Whitetail_Properties

3 жыл бұрын

Correct

IM in PA, where are you in the state?

@Whitetail_Properties

3 жыл бұрын

We were in North Central PA, around Knoxville.

You can monitor which Oaks produce acorns, but how do you monitor which Oaks are the pollinators? If you remove the pollinators, the producers won't produce.

@Whitetail_Properties

2 жыл бұрын

Oaks pollinate through wind. They are also both male and female so they all can pollinate.

@bennyjankins4856

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they're all pollinators. But they don't pollinate themselves. If you remove trees based on not producing acorns, you may end up removing your main pollinators. Thus causing your best producing trees to not produce as great of acorn mass. I agree you need food at browse level by opening up the canopy, but a section of the timber thats producing a good acorn mass will take many years to replace if done incorrectly.

One trick I learned is to put out a feeder and some corn.

@dapoutdoors4912

Жыл бұрын

Lol same

Doing what we do best, manipulating the environment.