Forestry project pruning

All the oaks are great and not much to do. The pines are a few years away, so proving great cover for the deer. But these dam cherry trees are a puma. Dang things keep bushing out and keep taking on the form of a bush than a tree. We banged out a couple thousand trees today and about 6 thousand more to go.

Well, the forestry guys call it pruning….I call it removing the bullet hazzards.

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That’s alot of heavy pruning! Do those produce lots of fruit?

The cheery is American cherry and they produce a lot of tiny cherries for the birds.

The Burr oaks are already producing acorns. Pretty impressive amounts for such a young tree.

We will be doing selective harvest on these trees as they age. The pine first, then cherry. The pruning gets them to just the main trunk and straight/tall. Regardless of the harvest, for me it’s all about building more habitat

I will be doing the same with a stand of about 50 to 100 sugar maples I’m starting this year. I won’t see the mature result, but my grandkids will.

castle-rock-clown wrote:

but my grandkids will.

Maybe its my age, but I really don’t know a more rewarding feeling than to know we are passing along something , back to the environment, our kids, our grand kids…that we know will be of benefit – yet we will never see the end result. Kudos to you!