How to Manage Your Woodlot

Résumé du livre

Timber is one of a landowner’s most precious natural resources. But to make the most of those trees—whether as wildlife cover, winter fuel, or future lumber—knowledge of proper tools, safety, and timber management practices is absolutely essential. The basics of wood management for beauty, profit, or plain usefulness are precisely what this book provides. Small-scale farmers, rural landowners, hunters, and just about anyone else with one or more stands of timber on their property will find the book thoroughly practical, useful, and clear. Graeme Quick begins with choosing and using the right tools for your job, with special attention to chainsaws, brush cutters, pole saws, stump grinders, splitters, and chippers, along with axes, splitting mauls, hand saws, and loppers. He discusses safety considerations at length, then moves on to management practices and principles, covering topics from clearing old growth to skidding lumber; removing stumps to trailblazing; harvesting to planting. With additional advice about cutting and storing wood for fuel, and selling timber, How to Manage Your Woodlot is a complete and indispensable resource for anyone with a woodlot to manage.