NPR: A Good Lumberman Is Not an Oxymoron

A Good Lumberman Is Not an Oxymoron

I got thinking about good lumbermen after a comment posted yesterday by TP community member, Rob Spence. It was in response to my post about the felling of big trees.

Fourth generation New Hampshire lumberman Jamey French, leaning on a 200-plus year old sugar maple. He was my introduction to the oxymoronic world of do-gooder lumbermen. Care to nominated a lumberman/woman pin-up of your own?

photo credit: Ketzel Levine, NPR

Who is to say that (even) sustainable forestry does not include the taking of some large diameter timber? Big trees grow back too, they just take longer, maybe longer than we personally will be alive.

I know someone who undoubtedly signs execution orders for big trees. And much to my (naieve) amazement, he is a fierce environmentalist and a devoted steward of the forest.

And a lovely guy.

You might have met him briefly if you heard this week's Sugar Maple story on Morning Edition. His name is Jamey French. And we could probably get him to swing by the TP blog if anyone has any thoughtful questions for him.

6:24 PM ET | 11- 1-2007 | permalink

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My oak tree by the lake is dead at the top adn toward the lake side - it is split about 14 feet up into two trunks. Somone told me water was getting in and rotting it. That caused the top and limbs to die????

Do I need to take the whole tree out or just the dead wood? If I just take out the dead wood, how do I protect the scar for the living tree?

Sent by Sandy | 4:06 PM ET | 11-03-2007

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