dmccarty
Super Star Member
What the land looks like after logging is up to the owner. The owner SHOULD be specifying in their timber contract how the logging operation will proceed. Too many people do not know anything about the timber business and get rip off. Some very smart people I know, who should have known better, got ripped off.
When we timbered our land I built trails, often using what the loggers created, through the land. The slash was hidden in a few years and rotted away. Before it rotted away it was good wildlife habitat. The trails allowed us to use the land will the trees grew back.
We could have had the logger do more clean up, but I figured he made money cutting trees, not doing land clearing per say. Figured if I wanted the mess cleaned up I would pay someone else. Course, I have a tractor, so I cleaned up what I wanted cleaned up.
If one wants the stumps removed, bulldozers and/or excavators will do it pretty quickly. They can pile up the slash and stumps which can be then be ground into chips or burned.
Our land was not messed up by the logging operation except in two places where they almost got stuck. Fixed that long ago. Our land was previously logged in the 30's is my guess. They did make a mess in that the tractors left deep ruts in a few places. They obviously logged when it was wet, mostly likely in the winter.
How the land is left after logging, is on the land owner, not the logger.
Later,
Dan
