When is logging season

These jobs, too, need to wait for the summer or autumn. Finally, your choice of season can influence which trees will grow back afterwards. White pine is the best example of this, though the same is true for yellow birch, many of the oaks, and even hemlock. Most maple seeds, on the other hand, germinate just fine on undisturbed soils, meaning that winter logging may be best if you want to favor your maples.

White pine and white oak can make planning a logging job especially easy because their cones and acorns spend two years developing on the tree before falling to the ground. Foresters and loggers, therefore, can peer up into the tree tops one autumn and know how good the cone and acorn crop will be the following autumn, making it possible to schedule a logging job for exactly when a bumper crop is getting ready to hit the ground.

Red oaks and the various maples also tip their hands during heavy seed years but only provide a few months notice. These species set their seeds in the spring and drop them in the autumn of the same year. Planning a logging job on your own land, or wondering why logging is happening nearby at a certain time? Though logging crews may be starting a job simply because they happened to be in the neighborhood, the chances are good that they may also be responding to something particular about the trees or the land in a given spot.

Producers of larger volumes appear to maintain a slightly more balanced average harvest percent over the seasons of the year, though there is still a slightly higher average in the winter and spring harvests ranging on average from 12 percent. We might expect that the average percent harvest by season might change be influenced by the timber type, where the northern hardwood timber types might be subject to more snowfall but also colder temperatures.

The regions were closest in their average volume harvested during the fall September — November at approximately Links to complete series on Week 1 post. We teach, learn, lead and serve, connecting people with the University of Wisconsin, and engaging with them in transforming lives and communities. Connect with your County Extension Office ».

Find an Extension employee in our staff directory ». Facebook Twitter. Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: info extension. Share if you like. Previous Blogging Logging — Sub-contractors week 7. Another similarity in the region is that a fewer number of businesses are supplying a larger amount of the volume to consuming mills. The smaller logging businesses are critical to meeting overall demand but are likely to exit the industry in the next five years.

Differences among logging businesses also exist across the Lake States Region. Some of these differences include the size of operation, harvest equipment or system used, stumpage sources and what percentage of timber volume to be harvested is purchased by someone else.

The information provided by the surveys is a valuable source of knowledge and is important to the entire wood supply chain. Loggers, foresters, managers, and associated businesses will benefit from reviewing the results and conclusions of the survey findings.

The information provided in the Technical Releases is from a survey of logging businesses for the year As the days get longer and the sun gets warmer, the logging roads used to access and manage forests in the Lake States Region giving way to spring thaw. A time of reflection on the winter harvest, and a time for education. Back National Safety Best Practices.

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