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The new tub roof held through the wind storm yesterday we had sustained winds of  just under 40k's and gusts to ??
The article about Forestry I had never finished so got at it yesterday and finished it off, probably a couple more days of entries on here.
Fooled around with search engines yesterday. Under advisement I got rid of Google Chrome and Opera and loaded the newest version of Internet Explorer 8. I don't like it; it is slow and a bit contankerous. Opera worked really well but I kept getting messages that suggested it could be hacked easily??? In doing all this my daily program destinations disappeared from their place down by start and I can't drag them down as I did before.
I also ran 'CrapCleaner' and got rid of a lot of stuff. I had done that not so long ago so the junk builds up fast.

This left a proliferation of high stumps along the down hill side of the trails.

  The area was logged in July and August; the skidding of the harvested trees resulted in a light scarification of the ground beneath the remaining stand. All the spruce above the prescribed diameter limit, those cedar suitable for poles and a smattering of balsam were harvested. Slash disposal consisted of delimbing the tree tops that were left behind.

  Eleven years later I was The Ranger in the Valemount District, due to some boundary changes that had occurred in the interim this same area was once more under my jurisdiction. The same company applied for a harvesting license over the same piece of ground.  An examination of the area revealed that a good stand of eighty percent spruce had become established beneath the canopy of the trees left from the earlier harvest; the trees that had been reserved had released[1].

  The application was accepted; the sale was cruised then sold. This time The diameter limit was set at thirteen inches for all species and all species must be logged, the contract had a clause restricting logging to the winter with a requirement that not less than two feet of snow had to be on the ground. The area was relogged in 1969. More volume was extracted than the first time and a summer regeneration survey revealed that there had been better than a ninety percent survival rate of the regeneration.

  Ten years later I visited the area on a hunting trip and out of curiosity I checked the area and was greeted with the sight of a well established mixed stand of spruce, cedar, balsam and hemlock.

  By accident a treatment that was exactly right for that particular micro-climate had been chosen and it was these singular successes that often preceded a blanket application that then resulted in environmental disaster.

 

  The role of Ministry staff was unique in those earlier years. Each timber sale was tied to its own specific contract. These contracts would establish the size of the timber to be cut, would layout how slash was to be disposed of, species and or diameters that were reserved from cutting. Where groups or single trees were reserved as a seed source, financial penalties for cutting or damage were laid out. The contracts empowered ministry staff to suspend operations when contractual conditions were flouted.  Financial penalties were set for wasted timber and for uncut trees designated to be cut. The contracts also required that an approved plan of logging must be in place before operations could commence. These plans included the location of roads, culverts, bridges and log landings.

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[1] ‘Released’ is a term used to explain that trees have continued to grow at an accelerated rate.