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an who grew up working with draft horses on a Virginia tobacco farm, has been logging the mountain woods near his home for almost twenty years. “Don’t call me a logger," he told the author.
“Conventional loggers are merely tools of industrial forest interests. Tb call me a logger diminishes the highly skilled work I do. I am a biological woodsman."
What this “biological woodsman" does is to use horses to pull cut timber from the woods, minimizing the impact on the forest. He selects trees for cutting with a system that turns conventional industry practice on its head. Under conventional ‘high grading," only the biggest and best trees are cut, leaving weaker specimens behind. But Jason, who drives around in a truck with license plates that read “HOSS LOG," selectively thins the forest by a system he calls “worst first," in which lower-grade trees are taken first, delaying the harvesting of the best until later.
This “delayed gratification” system improves the health of the forest and permits Jason to return years later to the same plot to reap the benefits of his practice. It is a long-range view of a man more concerned about the future of the forest than the immediate income available from it.
Chris Bolgiano has immersed herself in the complex ecology of the forest and the attitudes and practices of people that have an impact on our wooded landscape. This book
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