Logging Questions

[onthefly]

I have a few questions sprung from my experiences hunting this fall. Hope someone can help...

1) Any "early warning signs" that a stand of timber will be logged? I hunt a 25-30 acre oak ridge. There were orange/red slashes on every mature, healthy tree. Does that mean it will be logged soon?

2) Is there any situation where loggers might cut trees in an area they don't intend to log? There are some areas of 20 year (guess) old trees. I found an area near one of my stands where maybe 30 or 40 trees in a random pattern were cut and left. The only thing I can figure is they were trying to get the maple grove I hunt near more sunlight.

[pray for the fish]

I have logged for 30 yrs. so I have experience in this. The paint on the trees means the stand has been inventoried. The painted trees might be the ones to stay or they might be the ones to be cut. The only way to know when it will be logged is to find out who owns the land and call and ask. It could be shortly or maybe not for several years. As far as cutting trees and leaving them, you might be right about opening it up for more light, especially if the left trees were not commercially valuable.

[sakazulu]

I have hunted state land all of my life. When you see marked hardwood trees, They're gonna harvest. We now lease some Potlatch land and they marked off bounderies this summer. At Gamefair I talked to a Potlatch rep. that said the price of lumber dropped so logging this year wouldn't happen.

[onthefly]

Thanks for the information, guys.

I'm still wondering about the random cutting, though. It's happened a couple years in a row in different areas. Just seems very random...