The Rural Voice, 2001-10, Page 34Warren D. Moore
Forest Specialist
specializing in:
' Woodlot Management
Timber Marking and Marketing
Tree Pruning, Tree Removal
* Tree Planting Services
Blyth
Certified Managed 523-9855
Forest Plan Approver
INDUSTRIAL &
FARM SUPPLIES
• Nuts & Bolts (all grades)
• Hydraulic hose & fittings
• Belts • Bearings
• Grade 70 Transport Chain
• Roller Chain
• Tools
Springmount Industrial Park
Owen Sound N4K 5N7
519-376-0283 FAX 519-376-7202
GREAT LAKES
FOREST • PRODUCTS
Buy • Sell * Transport
of Standing Timber,
Logs & Lumber
* FREE ESTIMATES
* ALL WOODLOTS PAID
IN FULL BEFORE
LOGGING BEGINS
(519) 482-9762
Jake or Bob Hovius
142 Maple St., Clinton, Ont. NOM ILO
"Our Money...
Grows on Trees"
Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority
Financial and
technical
support.
Assistance with
the development
of planting plans
and maintenance
guidelines.
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Call us at 519
335-3557 for
information and
application
forms.
TREE PLANTING
SERVICES
Reforestation Assistance
Service - Seedlings
This service provides
assistance to
landowners who are
reforesting marginal
lands or planting field
windbreaks. Our
experienced staff will
assist you in choosing
species and creating a
planting plan. Plant
your own seedlings
or have us do the
planting for you.
Roadside & Windbreak
Tree Service
This service offers
larger trees for
planting along
roadsides and in
windbreaks. Avariety
of tree species is
available from the
MVCA based on a 50
tree minimum order.
Call us today for
information on the
application deadline
for this service.
Maitland Valley Conservation Authority
years
Box 127, Wroxeter, Ont. NOG 2X0
—.gm - 519.335.3557 Fax 519.335.3516
Celebrating 50 years of conservation!
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short-lived species. Few cedar stands
will last longer than 80 years even if
left untouched, Eccles says. As the
stand gets older storms fell a few
trees which creates openings and
soon there's a snowball effect of
trees falling.
You can manage a woodiot in a
way that will encourage cedar or
encourage other trees, he says. If you
harvest in summer the soil will be •
compacted, something cedar likes. If
you harvest in winter. there'll be less
compaction, promoting other species.
If you leave debris, it encourages
cedar. If you clean it up, other
species may grow better. Among
those species white ash and black
cherry seem best able to tolerate the
toxins released by cedars, Eccles
says.0
Wood market
nervous just like
other markets
/t's not only the stock market
that is nervous in the wake of
the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Centre and the
Pentagon, says Jim Eccles.
Sawmills that depend on the U.S.
market are also worried what the
future might bring.
As a result, hardwood buyers
are making sure they have enough
standing timber purchased to keep
mills going, but they're not buying
up a full year's supply as they
might have in years past.
As well, prices dropped during
the summer and haven't recovered
to the levels of last fall yet, Eccles
says. Recently he did get a bid of
$1400 a thousand board feet for
one client, however, he says.
Hard maple still leads the
market with soft maple also strong.
Hickory is also starting to.move
well, he says. White ash, on the
other hand, is so out of demand it's
difficult to move it. "Don't ask me
why," he says.
White pine is still selling well
in southern Ontario but the U.S.
tariff has already affected sales in
northern Ontario and that will
likely eventually trickle down
south, Eccles predicts.0