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To: Jerome who wrote (6040)	7/29/2018 11:54:17 AM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) of 26579

Hi Jerome, I've wanted to take my Harley around Lake Michigan for several years now. That will be a for sure stop. Those trees are located in 2 parcels one 40 and the other an 80 acre tract. 95% of the trees are red pine - they will mature and top out in another 20-22 years. Red pines have a larger cell in the wood. For that reason they are utilized by the treated lumber companies ie Biewer. I have a scheduled thinning that will happen in either 2019 or 2020 for both. The 5% of the trees left are white pine. As you point out they continue to grow and mature to be very old trees. On the 80 acre parcel to the Northern side there are white pines that must be 150 to 200 years old. That part of the woods has self generated white pines that are over 30 years old and 30-40 feet tall. We're considering a shelter harvest of the complete overstory along that fence line. It will open up the understory to the sun's full strength. Future thinnings will be harmful to many of the trees as mother nature is a random planter and not in the efficient rows my Dad planted in 1955. I deer hunt in the 80 and have bought an additional 16 acres to the adjoining North. I plan on turning those grass lands into food plots (for deer) and winter seed stores for the local wild turkeys. Next year I'll need to buy a tractor / skid steer on tracks with a tiller to tear up the 70 year old grass (which provides cover and insects for the Turkeys when they hatch their chicks on the ground. These last few years have seen a reduction of wild turkeys. Last year I believe I found the reason - there is a fisher living in the woods. They are voracious killers and I've begrudgingly decided to get it trapped out. Thanks for the neat place to check out - I've printed your post and put it in my tree farm file! Bob

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