Roads and Landings

Woodland Owners’ View

There are too many bushes and saplings on this old road. In order for the loggers to get in here and make a place to work, the road needs to be more accessible, and less appealing for the folks who have been dumping trash there!

Logger’s View

It will take a few extra pieces of equipment here—probably a bulldozer and an excavator—to get this road ready for hauling; need to make some landing areas too. Might need a load or two of gravel, depending on how it goes when the road is opened up.

Forester’s View

Vegetation needs to be cut back along the roadside and ditches, in preparation for using the road to yard and haul wood and make it otherwise passable for log trucks.

Woodland Owners’ View

This crew really knows how to run that equipment! They handle a lot of wood in a day. The loggers hauled off the small amount of trash. It’s amazing how quickly nature will come back in, even after all that equipment moving around. This is nice walking now.

Logger’s View

The road is holding up great! Hope the weather holds and the mill doesn’t cut back on delivery quotas! This is how landings should be closed out, all tidied up and ready for the next harvest. Hope the landowner calls the same logger back for that.

Forester’s View

Great utilization, sorting the more valuable sawlogs on the left from the pulp and firewood on the right. The wood that was cut was all hauled away and paid for. The road is in better shape than when work started, and the landowners have re-established access to their land.

Wildlife Outcome

Opening provided by roads and landing are valuable to many species. The low vegetation along the edges provides cover to small mammals. The tall pine provides an excellent perch for owls, hawks and other raptors, drawn by small prey like mice and voles.