Cords per acre per year, and sustainable harvesting practices.
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I live in Barker - small village about 15 miles NE of Lockport. About 5 miles south of Lake Ontario.
BurningBrutus
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Black Jaque Janaviac
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So 1/2 cord per acre per year? I don't quite understand how that calculates out. If I burn 4 cords per year I'd need 8 acres for one year. Or does that mean 8 acres would be sufficient to sustain my wood burning habit?
Grisu
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The latter. With 8 acres you can harvest 4 cords each year for as long as you want. It essentially means that on one acre you will have 1/2 cord of wood growth per year. If you regularly cut more than that you will end up without trees at some point.
I don't calculate, just cut and burn. But for 20 years I burned five to six cord off of the 4.5 acres of trees on this 5.409 acre place and for the last six years three cord a year and it ain't looking any different in those woods than the day we moved in.
Sounds like you know a thing or three about the sustainable harvesting topic. Care to share? Do you plant new trees and what's your strategy etc? Are you following a plan?
Nope. Just cut'em and burn'em. If the deer didn't mow down the saplings the place would be a jungle.
Between wind blowing down 90 footers and the ones that croak and die there is always sufficient wood.
Between wind blowing down 90 footers and the ones that croak and die there is always sufficient wood.
Well I guess with 14 acres of mature forest I probably have nothing to worry about 
. I just spotted a bunch more fallen and broken black locust in a part of my woods I don't get to as often - it's across a town ditch and I don't have a trail over there.
Think ill still have the DEC guy stop by - just to show off a little bit
. I just spotted a bunch more fallen and broken black locust in a part of my woods I don't get to as often - it's across a town ditch and I don't have a trail over there.Think ill still have the DEC guy stop by - just to show off a little bit
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