Spring Environmental Symposium – Topic – What is a healthy forest economy?
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Spring Environmental Symposium — Western State College, April 22, 2003 Topic - What is a healthy forest economy? : peer(te Thank you for this opportunity and thanky you George for the motivation to pull pa Break some thoughts together. George’s assignments are always challenging. I was — asked to talk about specific experience and lessons as a landowner. Then I am alniinein, art, supposed segue to issues of abstract philosophy in management of forest land. All P in 20 minutes. In 1971 my wife and I bought - and have come to love - a patch of forest land here in Gunnison County. It is an inholding, a property surrounded by the public national forest. It is located at the top of three drainages up which fire has travelled. Limestone quarries are on the property and just off it. During the late 1870's and 1880's, limestone was quarried and roasted in domed bee-hive kilns to make mortar used in foundations of the first large houses and buildings here. Much timber was cut to fuel these kilns. Within them the heat was so great that the sides are coated with a glass. In the area, most accessible timber not cut to fuel the kilns burned by fires started from sparks from the kiln fires. - About six months after we got this place, a classmate and one of Hugo Ferchau’s graduate students, Marv Hawthorn, started a project on it to study effects of thinning on dog-hair lodgepole pine. This stand was so densely packed it was hard to push through. Stems were 80 plus years old,
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