Managing Redwood Forests Responsibly

Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GetRedwood - In this video: Managing Redwood forests responsibly at Mendocino and Humboldt Redwood is discussed with Mike Jani.

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Forest Management

Mike Jani, President, Chief Forester

"This is a really neat example on our forest of what we mean when we say we're managing uneven aged forests.

"Right around us you can see very, very old trees. And as you look around, you'll see different age groups that for one reason or another likely had a lot to do with periodic fires that were a natural part of this environment came in and created different age classes of trees in here.

"So, you've got real old trees and then some that are probably a couple hundred years old and then trees in here that are 40, 60 and 80 years old. So this is a really, really good example of how our management over time will look when we get the point where we've harvested in stands multiple times. There is a lot of diversity in this stand, there is old, dominant mature hardwoods and dominant Douglas-fir trees, young trees that have plenty of sunlight, basically, what we call "free to grow" coming in underneath the dominant trees.

"We may not enter this site again for another 30 years, but in time we'll take a few large trees and then the small trees.

"This is kind of just in a good balance.

"These costal redwoods sprout from the stump, so we selectively plant where we don't currently have redwoods growing we'll look for opportunities to actually go out and plant new trees. But in most cases, we get regeneration from stump sprouting."

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