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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2/ There's a variety of services that he can provide from "giving general advice" to "marking the trees I should cut" to "managing the loggers who cut the trees". Going w some combo of 2 and 3.
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3/ I think I want loggers to haul 20 cords per year in log form out of the forest and to a staging area, where I will cut and split it, then haul it back to the house. I might feel frisky and choose to drop a few trees and skid them out myself, but that's not my core competency
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Replying to @GepppySB
10-20 acres. The 1 cord/acre/year is a rule of thumb. Reality varies up or down based on (a) local soil / climate / rain / species mix, (b) average age of trees (by analogy, teenagers have growth spurts, and so grow more inches/yr at 17 than at 39). Bc of a and b, I get 2c/a/y
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