posted 1 year ago
Thanks for your interest David...
212ac: several parcels, degraded natural northern hardwoods mixed conifers, no hardwoods regen, going white pine, conditions going oak-hickory, no migration mechanism; legacy plan to establish financial & sustenance self-sufficiency; preparations for fire as benefit
116ac in NYS DEC 480a, 15 years heavy pine thinning for deer exclusion matrix, 30 year transition to quality hardwoods selection harvest; forest inventory & management plan updates in progress now
homesteads + 87ac adjacent recent acquisition hard hit 2018 stormado + salvage logging; 90% establishment quality hardwoods 2019 replanting 3ac; seedling nursery; orchard plantings; significant wetlands; agro-forestry inventory & development plan underway now including edible forest, community food scraps composting, orchards/ gardens/ greenhouse/ hives, seasonal subsistence base
adjacent property historical Japanese 'palace' & 'gardens' ruins under restoration, invoking over-boundary hydrology, custom large precision beam milling, traditional joinery, forensic reveal/ remake of forest-overgrown landscape, fish farming, etc
involved in adjacent 1900ac community forest management, etc
Could immediately & next four weeks trade help one-for-one: doing forest inventory plot sampling, planting out 5-gallon maples & sumacs + black walnut seed, GPS->GIS mapping, collecting shagbark hickory & black locust seed, re-opening firelanes, etc.
best time to plant a tree was yesterday, next best is every day