Thinning Alder For Future Timber Harvest

[@ianmoone2359]

I recognised your MBM&M voice, so clicked for a look see. As a retired forester, if I were you, I would go through and mark all your retention trees with flagging tape or flouro spray paint, so that your not having to “assess” each tree while your chainsaw thinning. It gets mentally tiring, your concentration lapses as you tire through the day, and your assessment gets less precise etc. Tree mark it all as one operation, then thin it as separate operation. My 2c

[@larryweinberg1191]

Proper management. Alder takes nitrogen from the air and puts it back into soil. If one pulls up a small alder tree it has the nodules on roots that pea plants and other luguminosa plants have. Big industry timber still wages the war on alder and chooses aerial fertilization.

[@westcoast8562]

Alder grows turkey tail mushrooms very nicely and oysters mushrooms too. The mushrooms will appear in about about 1 or two years after they are felled. I'd leave them to rot right where they fall. Excellent compost and soil conditioner.

[@rockman531]

Hi Jason, Great update! Thanks for taking us along! Thumbs up! Jim

[@SteveandSusiesHomestead]

So your property isn't all swamp and spruce . Great job . I have to do the same on my property with a stand of Balsam Poplar .

[@alanmoffat4680]

Silviculture in action.

[@jeremychrzan]

Thanks Jason... love that you're mentioning them for mushroom logs.. it's something that more people should try!

[@johncarey9149]

I'm currently listening to Ghost Town Living by your friend from MBMM&M, Brent Underwood (excellent book and check out the KZbin channel), and he mentioned something that had never struck me before. That the raw materials we use are either mined or grown, and here you are Jason, doing both. The other thing he mentioned was the Cerro Gordo mine probably has enough timber in it to build the Empire State Building many times over, so maybe his surname is somewhat ironic. Thanks for the great content, whenever, or wherever you appear. Keep up the good work ... 😎

[@jeanetteswalberg6166]

I learn something every time I watch your vids. Nice before and after shot.

[@prinz10ga]

Do you come in and prune the lower limbs off to improve the future quality of the log at harvest.

[@BillMulholland1]

Great video Jason. Hope to see more 👍

[@titohaggardt6125]

I came to this channel from the mining one, clever side line for a forward thinker. Got a lot for the mine. No adler stands in hawaii

[@duanedodson1]

I thought that was you Jason, a man of many talents.

[@Crodmog83]

Cool, I didn't know you had a second channel.

[@trevorwhat]

epicormic!

[@SJForestProducts]

Yes! Epicormic sprouting! Thanks Trevor!

[@BrainsofFrank]

I love Biochar!! A friend and I are making biochar. Currently just for his farm use but we've been looking at potentially upscaling next year

[@weedwacker1716]

What would be the feasibility of bringing in one of those track-steers with a mulching head? You wouldn't need to drag the logs around or burn them, just leave the mulch where it lays.

[@raymonddettlaff1386]

Alder lumber is so expensive now, especially clear alder. But, in regards to the thinnings, I would love to have some for smoking.

[@jeffdevine6387]

alder is also great for the smoker :)

[@westcoast8562]

Those alder will naturally rot and produce native oyster and turkey tail mushrooms. Save your back and leave them where they fall. AND i'd maybe try chipping the smaller stuff around forest forest and let it natueally compost. And a bio char experiment sounds good

[@magicone9327]

What happens when the thinning is done and there is a 50-60 mph wind with rain? The force of the wind would then be against the remaining trees without any reduction of force being absorbed by the smaller ones .

[@sleepingdogs8939]

What do people use alder wood for? Also, with fast growing trees the ring spacing is large. Does this reduce the strength of the wood?

[@goldcountryruss7035]

I knew I had seen that face somewhere. Post Office most wanted pictures? No, it's just Jason.

[@Robbie..Ha-Navi]

tree rings here are wet and dry seasons, not years ,

[@DANsTrucking_Outdoors]

Now if only the state would thin the alders along roadways. Amazing the difference between privately managed and government managed lands.

[@krockpotbroccoli65]

The government doesn't manage anything. They just acquire property, let it go, and wonder why it's screwed up 10 years later. Happens all the time with old cranberry bogs around here. The ones that get taken over by private conservation groups and get restored to their pre agricultural state do really well. The ones that get acquired by governments get left alone and turn into completely useless, inhospitable, overgrown muck pits.

[@russellsmith3825]

Too bad you don't have a few cattle to graze the grass on the floor, that is the practice of silvopasture, and was broadly promoted by the Indians using fire to clear the underbrush and cutting smaller trees for firewood while leaving the larger mature trees.

[@russellsmith3825]

BTW Jason, my 16yr old daughter is in the the SeaTac area for a month visiting my ex-wife, if she wanted to make any geology or photography field trips, what would you recommend?

[@HansFormerlyTraffer]

You are getting to the age where you need an apprentice or three. THOSE are getting hard to come by.

[@SteveandSusiesHomestead]

First

[@deb2475]

I don't understand. I thought you were a crusher shaker table salesman. Change up or double time.

[@duanedodson1]

He is a man of many talents, what is not to understand.

[@express375]

A bit like defoliating.