Do trees 🌳 regenerate following logging🪵 operations?

追加: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]I thought it might be an interesting little video here. You can see some of this pine. Even the there's some hemlock growing up here too right behind me. But a nice mix of pine and hemlock. And this is actually the truck road that we hauled out of. Look at all that pine regeneration. You can kind of see the truck road is heading out that way. The main road is not far out there. But we built this road and yard in I believe, time flies, but 2013, I think, sometime in the summer. We might have did it in the fall. I can't quite remember, but this was a brand new road. So, this isn't even where we cut and just the pine. And not that I'd really want to grow hemlock, but regeneration is quite amazing. So, it shows you what time does. and we'll look at some of the places that we actually did cut and see what that's doing. I suspect it'll be a little more hardwood, not as much pine regeneration, but we're going to find out. So, hang around. See all this pine regeneration in here? This is still part of the road. This is where we piled wood up in here and the truck turned around in here. But 13 years, I'm about 5'11, so you know, six some of these.

[00:01:17]This was the old main skid trail, forward trail, forward ding trail I should say. And so I would call this more of, you know, what we would be looking at after cutting and not necessarily where the yard was, but for reference point, this is even taller.

[00:01:32]Well, it's kind of hard to see the top right up here. So this is I forget where I was there. I had a phone call, but you know, I would call this more natural regeneration. And this stuff was taller than what's out in the yard, maybe closer to 7 ft. Of course, you always get stump stump growth with some of the maples. There's some soft maple. And of course, that's a much taller. It's probably here's uh typical of a lot of hardwood stands that you thin in Maine where you get a lot of beach. And again, that's, you know, probably 2 and 1/2 in down on the ground and 10 15t tall. So again, trees do grow back. You don't have to plant in Maine.

[00:02:17]I get that question quite a bit from people who don't know anything about the wood business. Wondering, do you replant? No, we don't. Not with what the type of forestry we do. And this is an old skid trail that I used. And it's again all full of beach, which it not necessarily what you want to grow, but it's it is what's going to come up a lot of the time. It's quite interesting to me to be back in a place that I caught um you know 13 14 years ago which seems it doesn't seem quite possible. Um, but I remember this job. Um, it was really I had the I think the second processor I ever bought. I think it was the first new 501 I believe. Um, and I had my first forwarder and I remember thinking this is really rough ground. I thought this place was just horrendous.

[00:03:21]It is rocky. And there is spots that are rockier than others. But now after a few more years, I'm like, "Oh, this really isn't that bad." Yeah, there's some areas that we can't get into, but God, why did I think this was bad? So, time gives you perspective. But here we go. More pine regen. You know, like I said, it's not as thick as it is out on that yard, but, you know, it's nice to see that there's a pretty consistent amount of of um uh pine regeneration coming up instead of just all beach or, you know, there's some Oh, have to look at it.

[00:04:09]Oh, that's just an alder pop.

[00:04:13]Oh, that's popple.

[00:04:16]There's probably some birch. This is believe this is more birch, which really doesn't do us any good either at this point. But still more pine.

[00:04:31]All in all, I guess to conclude things, yes, trees do grow back. the forest recovers and heals and becomes more healthy before you come back again and repeat.

[00:04:44]Much like a garden, you can't just leave it alone. You have to pay attention to it and you have to weed it and you have to take care of it. And uh if you do, it will it will be productive and uh reward you with your work. Um, and for the landowner, it's doing the right thing and finding the right logger is doing the right thing for the forest. So, anyways, like, subscribe, comment. We'll catch you later.