The Longleaf Leader Magazine

It was such an honor to recently be featured in The Longleaf Leader magazine.  We strive to manage our longleaf forest to be productive and provide a longleaf habitat that benefits wildlife.  We have always shared with other landowners any information that we have available to us to help other landowners in managing their property.  

This article provided us the opportunity to share with some that we might not know a little about the way we manage our property.

Clear Forest Streams

If you want children to love the forest, then get them out and let them enjoy!  They love playing in the cool forest streams and whether damming it up or look for gold children love to play in a stream. 

Honor From Longleaf Alliance

Felicia and I were recently featured in a web presentation by the Longleaf Alliance called Longleaf Pine: A tough tree for tough sites.  There is lots of information here for those wanting to learn more about the Mountain Longleaf Pine.  We are featured on the part Longleaf-A better choice for these sites. The bullet points on the left of the page show the titles.

Longleaf Alliance came to our property and did an interview with us and developed this story.

https://storymap.longleafalliance.org

Learn and Burn

Yesterday the Clay County Forestry Planning Committee, which I serve on, sponsored a Learn and Burn Workshop.  I was a burn mentor and helped show other people that are interested in using prescribed fire how to use fire safely as a tool in forest management. We had 49 to attend the workshop and burned over 500 acres.  We got a very good burn on the host landowners property.  It was a good day and a good event for landowners.  We are looking to do this again next year.

Successful Workshop For Women

The ForestHer Work Shop this week was a success.  We hosted the event on our property, sponsored by the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, with a grant from Regions Bank.  This workshop gave the ladies confidence in forest management.  The ladies left the event with their own goals on how to improve their property.  Attendees ranged from Birmingham, AL to Douglasville, GA.  Several great speakers spoke to the ladies and the outdoor activities with this early spring weather was enjoyed by all!

(Below are some pictures from the workshop)

ForestHer Workshop

In February we will be hosting a workshop for women that are interested in forestry. If you want to register for this workshop go to https://tinyurl.com/forestherFeb2018

Hope to see you there!

New Year Plans

I love seeing these trees being harvested off of our property.  We have already made plans for reforestation of this property this year.  This property will be planted in longleaf pines.  There are many management activities on the property planed for this coming year. 

One load is of twelve inch topped hardwood trees and the second load is a load of nine inch topped hardwood trees.