Storm Delayed Trees

The third firewood bundle delivery for the week was a fast, get to town, get unloaded and get back home, because it was also the day that our seedlings were due to arrive. They had originally been expected to show up around February 12 but the weather had turned about that same time and nothing was moving. And sure enough, it wasn’t an hour after arriving back at the farm we had the seedling delivery thanks to a very helpful neighbor and board member of the Columbia County Small Woodlands Association.

The week of the delay worked well for us because we were so busy with firewood that we did not have time to plant, and also the weather was so bad we would not have been able to get the trees into the ground if we did have them available.

This year, we have only 440 seedlings to plant on the hillside. That is a much less number than previous years because we did not do as much logging in the larger patches. We needed to do those bigger areas before because of previous storm damage, poor seedlings that were growing broken tops, and root rot issues. This last year we did more selective thinning to clean up smaller areas in the forest thereby not needing as many trees as other years.

We expect to need three to four days of planting to get this many trees planted in the correct places while checking over areas of the forest that may need filling in.

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