The Rural Voice, 2003-10, Page 20laboratory about woodlot
management when you look at each
25 -acre lot.
His father liked trees, Murray
says, and liked to look at them so
much he probably didn't cut them as
often as he should have. The result
was an overly mature bush that had
too many large trees and not enough
variety of tree development in the 25
acres of bush on his home farm. So
when the bush was marked by
Ministry of Natural Resources
technicians in the 1950s and became
the first woodlot auctioned off the
result was a cut that, in hindsight,
Murray feels left the bush too open.
Things probably would have been all
right even with that severe cut but
several dry summers contributed to
more damage to the remaining trees.
With some trees suffering from die -
back a second cut was required some
years later.
Each of the 25 -acre sections of
the woodlot has a different
character because of past
management practices. A goal would
be to have each of the sections have a
different harvest but generally there
are a few trees throughout the bush
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Murray Scott measures one of his favourite trees in his 100 -acre woodlot.
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