FNR-542-WV - Sustaining Our Oak-Hickory Forests

Our oak-hickory forests provide us with many environmental, social and economic benefits. Without proper stewardship, these benefits can be reduced through the loss of these forests. This video discusses the role management, and particularly different types of timber harvesting, plays in sustaining our oak forests. For more information about the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment and other resources, visit www.HEEForestStudy.org.

[@johngrasing1715]

Thanks you so much for putting this on youtube!

[@oldcountryman2795]

Our property was logged before we bought it. The loggers made ZERO effort to leave any trees alive that where too small to mill. Hundreds of small oak and hickory trees cut down, broken, bark skinned off, roots destroyed by tracks. These logger’s children will have to find another way to make a living.

[@Jemalacane0]

Haha! I called it. It's more: Maple and beech are bad bullshit! Beech produce edible mast too and in fact, oak are in the same family as beech. Maple trees quite literally water plants growing near them through hydraulic lift.

[@max796428]

The edible mast from Beech doesn't even begin to compare to the quality & variety of mast produced by red/white oak spp. FIA data from 2017 says that red maple is the abundant tree species in the U.S. (25 billion trees); we are in no shortage of red maple and it's doing a lot more harm than good in taking over these mixed hardwood/pine-oak forest types, especially in Southern Appalachia.

[@AnthropoidOne]

Oak is far more valuable to insects than Beech.

[@denverbasshead]

Red maple is already the dominant tree I'm the US. We definitely need more oak and hickory regeneration