Here in Ohio, you have to treat invasive species for multiple years before touching the canopy or you will have non-native invasives that become very costly and labor intensive to control. The average person can’t control them and it requires professional help. They take over 100% without control. We cut the undesirables trees out first when controlling invasives. Once it’s prepped we wait to see what the understory does, and slowly take a few low quality trees and undesirable species from the canopy while allowing our desirable species to re-produce. Once the regen is of desirable species and density we harvest a little more aggressively. We keep the majority of our large healthy mast producing trees to continue providing forage and increasing in value. Most logging is unsustainable and leads to degraded habitat and timber quality.
It is definitely a different ball game in Ohio. Compared to New York. I went out there to hunt state land for the first time last fall. The multiflora rose was so thick most areas were impassable. You make some great points! Thank you for the insight.
Here in Ohio, you have to treat invasive species for multiple years before touching the canopy or you will have non-native invasives that become very costly and labor intensive to control. The average person can’t control them and it requires professional help. They take over 100% without control. We cut the undesirables trees out first when controlling invasives. Once it’s prepped we wait to see what the understory does, and slowly take a few low quality trees and undesirable species from the canopy while allowing our desirable species to re-produce. Once the regen is of desirable species and density we harvest a little more aggressively. We keep the majority of our large healthy mast producing trees to continue providing forage and increasing in value. Most logging is unsustainable and leads to degraded habitat and timber quality.
It is definitely a different ball game in Ohio. Compared to New York. I went out there to hunt state land for the first time last fall. The multiflora rose was so thick most areas were impassable. You make some great points! Thank you for the insight.