Interesting video, thank you. When fire mitigation is the goal it's important to remember that treated Forest burn with higher severity than untreated or protected Forest. This is because wind gets into the canopy and the ground and dry things out. Leaving all the organic material on the sites builds the soil and gives lots of habitat to the forest residents.
Or he could burn the left overs to make charcoal, the indigenous people do that and you barely know about wild fires in the actual Amazon rainforest, I think it's all a matter of humidity in lower areas.
If the planted pines are getting choked out you can do it by hand with a machete 5-7 years after planting, and it is pretty quick and easy. If they're not choked out by then, there won't be a problem.
Longleaf tends towards sandier soils, as is more common in the coastal plains, but they can thrive on a variety of soils, including rocky soils where mountain Longleaf is found in northern Alabama, and clay soils in parts of Georgia. They don't do well in alkaline soil such as in the black belt of Alabama. Fire tended to determine longleaf boundaries more than soils themselves, although soils and their ability to hold moisture influence fire frequency. Judging by your videos, you aren't in the US.
Open grown and grown with competition height growth would/ should be the same. Burning would be safe at the point that you are showing in this video as long as weather conditions were conducive. You can safely burn with most any amount of fuel load on the ground under proper weather. Hope you did get a chance to burn it. You will need multiple burns to knock back that hardwood trash. If you do end up burning you are not going to have a good mixed stand. Even a cool fire is going to start damaging some of your hardwood. Good luck
Both sides had some pulpwood removed from lanes, but looked like the thick side. Then, I cut non-crop trees on the hand-thinned side and pushed them over onto the ground where they would decay faster.
This was my thought too. He thinned it, left slash on the ground, and has already let it get grown up in brush instead of putting animals on it to keep it pruned back.
Interesting video, thank you. When fire mitigation is the goal it's important to remember that treated Forest burn with higher severity than untreated or protected Forest. This is because wind gets into the canopy and the ground and dry things out. Leaving all the organic material on the sites builds the soil and gives lots of habitat to the forest residents.
Or he could burn the left overs to make charcoal, the indigenous people do that and you barely know about wild fires in the actual Amazon rainforest, I think it's all a matter of humidity in lower areas.
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This is how the rainforest looks like, like a mirror of what I know as South America, with less softwoods that is of course.
If the planted pines are getting choked out you can do it by hand with a machete 5-7 years after planting, and it is pretty quick and easy. If they're not choked out by then, there won't be a problem.
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Hello! Please tell me, on what type of soil does a Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) grow? Our pines grow mainly on the sand. Thanks.
Longleaf tends towards sandier soils, as is more common in the coastal plains, but they can thrive on a variety of soils, including rocky soils where mountain Longleaf is found in northern Alabama, and clay soils in parts of Georgia. They don't do well in alkaline soil such as in the black belt of Alabama. Fire tended to determine longleaf boundaries more than soils themselves, although soils and their ability to hold moisture influence fire frequency. Judging by your videos, you aren't in the US.
Open grown and grown with competition height growth would/ should be the same. Burning would be safe at the point that you are showing in this video as long as weather conditions were conducive. You can safely burn with most any amount of fuel load on the ground under proper weather. Hope you did get a chance to burn it. You will need multiple burns to knock back that hardwood trash. If you do end up burning you are not going to have a good mixed stand. Even a cool fire is going to start damaging some of your hardwood. Good luck
Did you merely cut this with a chainsaw and leave what you cut on the ground?
Both sides had some pulpwood removed from lanes, but looked like the thick side. Then, I cut non-crop trees on the hand-thinned side and pushed them over onto the ground where they would decay faster.
Yes, I cut the trees with a Stihl MS 361 chainsaw in this area.
This was my thought too. He thinned it, left slash on the ground, and has already let it get grown up in brush instead of putting animals on it to keep it pruned back.
Hardwood trees produce edible mast for wildlife.