Good morning Bob and thanks for sharing how we can help the forest.  Debbie and I headed to the Cibola National Forest over the weekend and noticed they had cleared dead and too close trees.  Fire prevention I'm sure.  Wish our local area was blessed with forest we certainly love it.

Hi Bob - Very informative post. We don't see a lot of logging here, but our clients who have wooded land do have to maintain it, particularly to minimize the risk from fire and infestation.

Hi Bob - first of all, great photos. I always appreciate your great blog posts regarding forest management. And, you are so right, nature does need some help.

Congrats on the feature - enjoyed reading the post. We do have a significant amount of forest land here in the Pacific NW. Other than the commercial forest properties not many property owners do much with their forested property.

Don't see a lot of wood here by the coast. Was just in Northern Mississippi. Lots of woods there. While walking you can certainly see the difference between a managed property and not.

Great information Bob!  Like Bill, I'm on the coast too and never really thought about forest management.  I was in Colorado last week and saw some great scenery. 

Great informative post Bob, I had no idea what really goes into keeping a forested area healthy and productive for us as well as the animals that live there every day.

Thanks Bob - not only for your post but also for caring about our natural resources.

Really interesting Bob.  Did not realize most of it.

Bob -- hopefully they will be able to do some "salvage logging" in a couple of the areas hit by major forest fires this year - so there is better ecology sooner in those areas.

Too bad more people don't understand that a forest or any wild area requires maintenance, whther it is by us or by fire/storm/disease it will get thinned out.

Hi Bob-beautiful photos and nice writing. Very important to manage these resources well.

My land got some help from our local DNR.  They gave me a plan that I didn't think would work very well and I was very suprised.

This is a very useful post. To be honest - I have always been of the belief that you should let nature do it's job in the time frame it deems best - BUT in this day and age, our impact on nature, like you said, is moving too fast for nature to keep up. It is important that you shared this so folks who are lucky enough to have forest on their land can care for it properly. 

Bob,

Thanks again for some fabulous information.  I trimmed the trees nearest to my home so that I could visually see any critters too close ot the house... but the result was that my trees JUMPED 12" in height in one year, that was a LOT of growth for my very slow growing Junipers.  I also cleared a bunch of the dead branches within the tree so that it was easier to get up and into the tree.  That may have helped the health of the trees as well.  I really wasn't sure if I was helping or harming the trees - but they sure seemed to LIKE it!  I wish I had some of your years of knowledge - thanks for sharing again and again!

Bob, You certainly know your business and would be the one to call for analyzing a forest and trees.

We could be doing more of this out here to control the fires that seem to hit every summer, mostly from lightning but at times a careless person causes major damage.

Almost anything is better than clear cutting.  The logging industry apparently tried that decades ago, and if I remember history correctly, it supposedly caused the Johnstown Flood.

It's like cutting our hair . . . we have got to do that or look shaggy, unkept, etc.  The forest, or our personal front yards, need to be groomed too!

Thanks for a bit more insight into what you do. Great explanation and reasons why forest management is so important. Have a great night, Bob.

Very informative post! I absolutely love the photographs!

Bob, of course what you say makes sense, but I guess I wouldn't have considered cutting down mature trees, however my point of view is from a home owner and not a large land owner.

Thank you for sharing this very informative blog Bob.  Even though I live in a valley of the Blue Mountains in Pennsylvania, and never gave much thought to harvest cuttings providing a better light for plantings to grow in order to sustain wildlife.

Bob, thanks for the education on Your Forest May Need a Little Help. 

Removing the over story, so the little guys can have space, sunshine and spring into action, grow faster. Means woodlots are tree farming. To many garden radishes in a clump and they all do poorly, are crowded and can't breath like wall to wall people in an urban area. Weed them out, space helps us all. Trees need elbow room, know the meaning of the word patience.

WOW! I did not realize that property owners in your region had to do forest management! I can understand about clearing the brush out so that fires don't have any "fodder" to blaze on. However, I did not know you also had to fell trees....seems such a shame to have to cut any of them down. I am a tree hugger!

Hi Bob, I am enjoying going through some of your early blog posts and reposts and getting ready to start doing some posts myself soon.