Improve Your Forest

Goals - How To - The Tool

Now that you have determined your goals, how do you go about transforming your young stand of timber into a forest that will help you achieve them? Crop tree release can help you, but there are some details to consider before you strap on the chaps and fire up the chain saw.

Choose Crop Trees How do you go about finding the trees that will help you meet your goals? How many per acre? Find some answers here... at least enough to get you started.
Choose Cull TreesOnce the crop trees are selected, the next step is to remove some of the competition. Some is nuanced.
Remove Cull Trees Chainsaw work is dangerous, especially when it is so cold your goggles keep fogging up (at least he remembered his chaps)! Fortunately, there are other ways to remove competing stems.
Evaluate the Aftermath Forest owners should be more concerned about what they leave behind than what they remove. You have to crack some eggs to make an omelette.