Harvesting sawlogs from conservation plantings

We planted our eroded creekline in 1987 with a range of native tree species. Within a few years we were enjoying the conservation, shelter and aesthetic benefits. Now, we get to harvest sawlogs.
Rowan Reid
Forestry Scientist and owner of Bambra Agroforestry Farm
Lecturer in Agroforestry at Melb. Uni since 1991
Author of "Heartwood - the art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit"
www.agroforestry.net.au

[@voigtmeister1504]

Great message. It would also be great to see you produce timber from that tree, I learned a lot from your previous video on quarter sawing. It helped me straighten out my blackbutt harvested from my property with my small mill. Thank you. Jason.

[@maxwano]

Keep up the good work, cant wait for the next video.

[@JulianFoley]

Your cedar is showing a tall straight bole already - you seem to have less problem with the tip moth than we do up here in SEQ. It will make a beautiful cabinet, or skirting boards for your next home (probably in a little over 20 years if you have the same growth rates as we do).
Our house on a little farm on the Gold Coast was built a little over 150 years ago from local cedar, black bean and hoop pine, so we're planting for its replacement in fifty years. 🙂
We agree with you about not being too dogmatic about species or ecosystems. Our land, according to the regional ecosystem, should be open gum forest, but the cedars, silky oaks, fig trees and many more rainforest species keep popping up as soon as there's some overstorey. They lap up the more intense storms we're having as the climate changes, and are slowly pushing back the invasive grasses with their denser cover.
Looks like your ecosystem is making its own choices along those lines too.

[@bambraagroforestryfarm4008]

No tip moth down here - straight clean Red Cedar. Getting about 1cm diameter/yr

[@car6120]

Convinced. Do you see a way to by-pass the eucalyptus canopy due to fire risk? or is it crucial to establish your rainforest species? Would there be viable avenues for a historically grazed property to slowly phase out grazing altogether in place of agroforestry and some cropping with profits? And how would you balance fire risk in that scenario?

[@CharraSuite]

Worth reading his book "Heartwood" for the answer to some of these questions

[@car6120]

@@CharraSuite Indeed. read it cover to cover