RE: Am I harvesting wood sustainably or will I eventually run out?
How timely! I am out for a few days doing firewood. I miss calculated my usage. We have had some pretty severe storms, so alot of trees were down. I bucked and stacked as much as i could and will gather it in the spring for next winter. After the snow has melted for me to find the stacks! For now i will take the standing dead. It's easier to get to. Even with crotch deep snow! Lol
My first year..i learned that tamaracks are not dead pines. I love tamaracks!
It's great that you can calculate like that. I just go by how it feels. There is alot of clear cutting up here. Although the ministry calls it forest management. Because they leave a few trees at the road, so people can't the rape of the land from the road. I was also told that they will plant red pine, because it is worth money... lumber. So now our forests are cash crops.
Ohhhhh don't get me started!! Lol lol
The ministry is insane. Remember on Avatar where the matriarch comments that they hope Jake's insanity can be cured? I pray the same for the greedy as well.
I go by feel as well. I just did the numbers to show people. I know when I first posted it, I had many who thanked me for the calculations as they had no idea how to do it. We are all good.
Crotch deep snow is a lot of snow. Time for snow shoes and skidoos! I build a sled that I pull behind the quad and we go out onto the trails when ever it snows so that we can keep the paths beat down. Otherwise, we would lose access to the bush until it melted. We don't have a skidoo and I would have to build snow shoes. Which I could do! :)
It's brilliant how you calculate. :) i use my pelican sleds, make a train. Lol i don't know how to fabricate a nice sled like you have! I saw it in another one of your posts!
I have to start snow trails to tap the birch trees. Next year i am hoping to groom the trails for the snow mobile. But it will be the old fashioned way this year. :)
Isn't it awesome!? Lol
Yes, indeed it is awesome! We did it all by hand when we started too. The dead trees were close by. Now we travel 1/2 mile into the bush to get to the dead trees now. I am cutting new trails so that we can gain access to sections of the bush that we have yet to harvest. It provides nice walking trails in the spring and fall as well! You reminded me of the tree tapping. I do want to try that this year. hmmmm. So much to do!
ALWAYS something to do! Lol lol so many things to try! The best part is that we can do it as we need to, or in divine order. Enjoy it! :)