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Hunting Land In South Alabama?- Timber Sales Tips
Hunting Alabama Land?- Timber Sales Tips
Thinning can be simple. This essay dispenses insight from my years of participation in protecting your investment and sales of future timber harvests. Before I do anything else, I always phone a forester who is accredited in the state of Alabama. I’ll solicit him to perform a timber evaluation, also referred to as a “cruise.” The cruise will give the age, type, quantity, estimated volume, present sale market price and future sale assessment if managed correctly. I will also ask him to make note of any parasites and disorders and to provide recommendations, such as burning, fertilizing, pesticides… and in his opinion, where would he install game attracting green fields for hunting.
An imperative consideration in timber management is to know that the timber density can soon become a impediment to their own cultivation and maturation rates. If they are permitted to stay so densely packed, they will start to fight for fundamental nutrients. The effect of this is that your timber will stagnate and never progress. Since your sale value is determined by the mass of the timber, your return on investment will suffer. How can you avoid this? What I commonly do is systematically remove 25% to 1/3 of the timber by select thinning every third or fourth row of the stand. This is repeated each time the trees “outgrow the dirt” until only healthy, mature timber remains. Any time you thin the timber on your hunting property, the surviving trees get a chance to mature, become bigger and increase in quality thereby strengthening the sale value of your ensuing harvest.