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Reforesting Your Timberland: Basics

Winter is the time to plant trees or reforest your harvested timberland. Planting is the last step to reforestation except for periodic survival checks. Some of the questions to be addressed in reforestation are as follows: What type of site preparation needs to be done and when? What type of pine seedling should you plant? What spacing or stocking should you plant? Where do you get the trees? Do you want to hand-plant seedlings or mechanically-plant the seedlings? How much capital do you want to invest in planting? This has a direct effect on how we prepare and plant the trees. How much does it cost to do the basic site prep and … [Read more...]

When and Why to Thin Your Pines

Thinning pine plantations is a process that occurs naturally with the help of Mother Nature or better yet, a forester. I am an advocate of thinning pines as soon as possible to keep the stand healthy and growing at its maximum growth rate. Thinning opens the stand so the trees grow, changes character of the woods and enhances the wildlife habitat. First, let’s look at why we should thin. Different landowners have different goals which can change the timing of thinning. If you are looking at managing for maximum returns from timber harvest, we tailor our management practices to facilitate growth of sawtimber and/or poles. These products are … [Read more...]

Six Steps Involved in a Successful Timber Sale

Are you interested in having a timber sale? This article outlines the basic steps to follow to make your timber sale a successful one. All of the steps below raise questions you need to answer. These questions will help you plan or set goals to manage your timber investment and make your timber sale more successful. … [Read more...]

Change – Inevitable & Continuous

Change - Inevitable & Continuous Change is a word we have all heard many times. We have all seen it and felt it. We are all affected by it. Change is inevitable as we learn and grow. As we mature through life and with time, our views and opinions change based on our experience, finance, technology and many other things. It is a continuous process that must be accepted and embraced. Not all change is what we would consider positive but has to ne adapted adapt to. What does this have to do with your land and timber investment? Understanding how our market is changing requires us to change strategy to achieve our goals. We have to find new … [Read more...]

Types of Timber Sales & Making Your Sale a Success

The more information you have to process, the better advice you can render. Timber inventories should show the volumes of the various products and the date the inventory was completed. It is also very important to know who conducted the inventory. In many instances, the stand type map is developed from the cruise map drawn in the field while taking the data for the inventory. Information like where to put log decks, locating ridges to put roads, location for wildlife areas and mapping out streamside management zones can be obtained while inventorying the timber. From the inventory, the forester can apply the current market prices of the … [Read more...]

Two Most Important Factors in Selling Land

Two factors that have a huge effect on the successful sale of your land is product knowledge and market knowledge. We keep statistics on our marketing, tracking who, what and where our leads originate and general listings activity. We also follow other trends in marketing of land and rural property. There are hundreds of places to spend money marketing, but where do you put ads that actually produce real buyers? Buyers for rural property tend to look in areas other than MLS or Realtor.com. If you are searching for the traditional home buy, go to those sites. They work very well for that market. We have found that many of our leads have … [Read more...]