Mike H wrote:
kate wrote:
Mike H wrote:
Rebuilding soil is definitely the hard part, but it can be hurried a
bit. (heres where our resident mushroom man jumps in-where are you Dan).
As a person who actually does restoration forestry, I've got to say a
LOT of faith is involved when starting with a just-harvested clearcut.
Still, it happens. I drive by stands that look exactly like the one on
your page twenty five years ago and now they're well past their PCT
stage and looking great.
Conservation easements between the owner and a land trust are a fine way
to ensure that forestland doesn't get developed before it regrows. I'd
recommend taking that path anytime.
Can you recommend some reading material on restoration forestry? I'm off
to Vermont this summer to 60 acres of former farmland.
Kate
Gordon Robinson's "The Forest and the Trees". Island Press, Covelo CA.
It's one of the classics. Also check out Chris Maser's works. I tend to
be western US oriented - the east probably has lots I'm not familiar
with. Otherwise Google: Forest Stewards Guild, the National Network of
Forest Practitioners (NNFP), Ecoforestry Journal, etc! There are tons
of technical works now, mostly in journals.
Thanks! Just reserved The Forest and the Trees and The Forest Primeval.
Kate