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- Your Forest Management Plan
Information on plans, property lines, inventory, cutting schedules and protection.
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- Building Woodland Roads
Explains the terms: shaping, ditching, culverts, bridges, proper location, gravel and rightofway.
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- Forest Surveys and Boundary Lines
Explains line blazing, importance of good boundaries, surveys, boundary line renewals and replaced corner posts.
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- Cleaning Forest Stands
Answers the 5 w's of cleaning forest stands.
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- Thinning Forest Stands
Answers the 5 w's of thinning forest stands.
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- Planting Forest Trees
Answers the 5 w's of planting forest trees.
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- Protecting Your Woodlot From Fire
Rules for thinning, removing snags, lopping brush and ways to construct fire ponds.
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- Thinning Mixed Hardwoods
Answers the 5 w's of thinning mixed hardwoods.
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- Safe Felling
Contains the general rules when handling a power saw, examples of an escape route, how to construct notches and where to stand when felling.
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- Safety From Stump To Roadside
Describes limbing, bucking, piling and skidding processes. Includes safety tips when driving tractors.
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- Harvesting Systems Shelterwood Method
Explains the why,where and how shelterwood harvesting is carried out.
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- Harvesting Systems Clearcut Method
Explains the why, where and how clearcut harvesting is carried out.
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- Harvesting Systems Selection Method
Explains the why, where and how selective cutting is carried out.
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- Harvesting Systems Seed Tree Method
Explains the why, where and how the seed tree option to clearcut harvesting is carried out.
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- Harvesting Systems Release Cutting
Explains the why, where and how release cutting is carried out to free a desired crop species from an overtopping canopy.
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- Shelterwood Harvesting Manual by Ronald G. Robertson and Robert W. Young, 1989, color illustrations. Intended for woodland owners, contractors, forest workers, or anyone else comtemplating shelterwood harvesting as an alternative to clearcutting.
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- Tree Planting Manual by R. G. Robertson and R.W. Young, 52 pages, color illustrations.
Primarily intended for contractors and their employees, although anyone planting trees will benefit.
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- Woodlot Roads and Stream Crossings by G.C. Brathwaite, P.Eng., 1992, 34 pages, illustrated.
Addresses the problems and solutions encountered with stream crossings and the construction of woodlot roads.
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