This Wentzell family woodlot has been logged every year for over 150 years, and yet the same volume of standing timber is here today as was here when the first European Settler arrived in 1840.We are continuing with the same forestry practices which have been applied for all that time. Although 150 years is a very short time in the life of a forest (many of the trees here are over 300 years old), this experiment in sustainable forest management is well-started.
We will pay close attention over the next 150 years to see what happens.
If you peer into this woodlot, you will see a great diversity of plants and animals . . . and some signs of human activity: a portable bandsaw mill which moves around from brow to brow sawing lumber from the logs which result from the winter horselogging; roads made of slabwood, shavings, and sawdust; arched bridges made from trees with too much sweep for sawing into lumber; and stacks of stickered lumber drying in the cool shade of the multi-layered canopy.If it is a weekday in the fall, winter, or spring, you may see Bob and Ted, the Belgian draft horses yarding logs or pulling a wagon-load of sawdust for the roads.
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