MarkV
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- Cedartown, Ga and N. Ga mountains
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- 1998 Kubota B21, 2005 Kubota L39
Hi all, hope you are having a great holiday season!
Does anyone have experience with prescribed burns for the betterment of forest and wildlife health? We are in the pine tree zone of the Southeast and have about 75 acres of family land that the foresters tell us needs to be burned. About 10 years ago the area was selectively logged and should have been burned a year later but was not. As a result there is a lot of under burden with thick stands of 10’ pines, briars, and varies other growth. A tornado kicked off of Katrina this last year came through the property and damaged about 10 acres of trees so this area has been recently logged. Logging leaves a heck of a mess and the foresters say that burning is also the best way to start cleaning it up.
This is a more than we want to take on ourselves so we will be having a forester do the burning. It does get expensive though. Rough estimates for an excavator to clean up the existing fire breaks, have a dozer on site during the burn and a crew of foresters to do the actual burning looks to be in the 5 to 7k range depending on how it goes.
I sure would like to hear about anyone else’s experience with prescribed burns. We would like to ask the right questions before the place is ablaze. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
MarkV
Does anyone have experience with prescribed burns for the betterment of forest and wildlife health? We are in the pine tree zone of the Southeast and have about 75 acres of family land that the foresters tell us needs to be burned. About 10 years ago the area was selectively logged and should have been burned a year later but was not. As a result there is a lot of under burden with thick stands of 10’ pines, briars, and varies other growth. A tornado kicked off of Katrina this last year came through the property and damaged about 10 acres of trees so this area has been recently logged. Logging leaves a heck of a mess and the foresters say that burning is also the best way to start cleaning it up.
This is a more than we want to take on ourselves so we will be having a forester do the burning. It does get expensive though. Rough estimates for an excavator to clean up the existing fire breaks, have a dozer on site during the burn and a crew of foresters to do the actual burning looks to be in the 5 to 7k range depending on how it goes.
I sure would like to hear about anyone else’s experience with prescribed burns. We would like to ask the right questions before the place is ablaze. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
MarkV