Forestry work in the SW corner

FORESTRY: 1 hour: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Thinning and pruning around the skid road entrance in South Side unit #4.

Forestry portion of road clearing along the South Side road. Thinned out the smallest dead standing and suppressed stems in the narrow strip of established forest between the road and the southern boundary. Not a thorough job – just an initial pass to get the easy and obvious stuff to clean it up a bit. Also pruned off dead stobs and lower limbs on the older trees.

Western property line looking north from SW corner of property.

The blue (and also orange) paint blazes can be found on virtually every tree along the property boundaries, making it very easy to know when you’ve wandered onto your neighbor’s land. Not very pretty, but certainly convenient in a working forest environment. This parcel was recently under industrial timber ownership and is still mostly bordered by commercial lands, so the boundaries are routinely surveyed and re-marked before logging operations are conducted.

This is another monitoring photo for the Current (Original) Condition Documentation taken on 2/15/2008.