Just took an hour long walk through my land with a professional forester. He says that if we log 20 cords per year for heating the house, the forest will produce wood faster than we can harvest it. Squares with what I had thought, from reading, but good to have confirmed.
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5/ We are logging mostly hardwoods, but trying to - if anything - remove pine and replace with hardwood. Soil is high quality enough to support either, so we're going to push towards the better (i.e. hardwood). https://twitter.com/RtWingScientist/status/1163825842775920640 …
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6/ Good question! Some trees, when you cut them down, will spring new saplings from the old cut trunk (googling "coppicing"). Most just rot, though. Our forest is littered with 80% rotted stumps from the last harvest ~ 25 years ago. https://twitter.com/unorthodoxxxy/status/1163853705306759170 …
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7/ And, anyway, no you can just ignore the stumps. Plenty of room around them for seeds and acorns etc to take root and form new trees.
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