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the tract, measuring and marking trees for cutting, and came up with an estimated harvest of 88,000 board feet. He approximated value at $6,000—more than double the original offer from the logger. Wood advised the landowner to put the marked timber out on bids and to accept no offers less than $6,000.
Since the Forestry Division charges only $1 per 1,000 board feet taken off tracts marked by division personnel, the landowner in this case may end up almost $3,000 richer for taking part in the assistance program.
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“Selective cutting is not a universal prescription for timbering," Wood emphasized. Thinning or clear cutting i* better suited for some property, he said. “But we’d at least like the opportunity to look at the tract of anyone thinking of timber cutting. We’ll make a recommendation. The landowner has no obligation to accept it and it doesn’t cost him anything,’’ Wood added. If the landowner decides to harvest his timber through selective cutting, Wood returns with his tally man and sounding axe, diameter tape, a special instrument
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