Jackson Forest 2009 Harvesting Issues

Jackson State Redwood Forest (formally named Jackson Demonstration State Forest) is planning several new timber harvest plans. The forest management plan adopted in 2008 requires that harvests in the State Forest meet certain conditions for the next several years. These conditions include maintaining the average diameter of trees and using only "selection" harvesting. The staff of Jackson Forest has interpreted selection to include "clump" and "cluster" harvesting. In clump harvesting, all trees that sprout around an single old stump are cut. Clump sprouting is the primary way that redwood forests regrew after the old growth trees were cut. Cluster harvesting expands on the cutting of clumps to cut all trees and clumps within 1/4 acre.

This film shows clumps marked for harvesting in two plans, Dunlap South and South Whiskey Springs. I debate the appropriateness of this "silviculture" (selection of trees to cut) with the forester in charge, Pam Lindstedt.

This film was recorded during a review of the harvest plans by a committee of the Jackson Advisory Group, an independent panel charged with developing recommendations for long-term management of Jackson Forest.

The primary purpose of this film is to allow people not at the harvest review to see examples of clump/cluster selection and to hear the rationale of the forester for using this harvest method.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jackson State Forest
• JDSF
• silviculture
• group selection
• cluster selection
• clump selection
• natural forestry

[EmeraldTriangleNews]

Save Jackson State Forest!

[effinghamhick]

STFU and let the forester lady do her job, you sniveling retard.