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“So the landowner gets more, because we use more. And it’s easier to replant. The state loves to come along after us and replant. And what we leave— low stumps, close to the ground, a few tangled up sections—will rot out in no time. Pine rots real quick. So a lot of landowners, like on this tract here, just put it in pasture.”
Dost does most of his work for Westvaco. “They locate the tract for us and we contract to take it out and send the chips to them. All this is going to their paper plant at Luke, Md.”
“IF IT’S going to be used for paper, the wood’s got to be chipped anyway. They used to take out all the trees in four foot sections, for lumber or paper. They
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