Information on Caretakers house and selective logging

Dear SweetWood Folk

Kim and I plan to build and complete our new house hopefully by September 2009. We will use trees from the Sweetwood woods for lumber of the construction of the home. The selection of trees will be in complete accord to the forest land management plan. We will take only trees where over crowding will eventually kill off trees (hence needs thinning), diseased trees (such as Black cherry that has black knot fungus), thinning some trees to allow healthy trees to grow or promote oak savannah and damaged trees such as the big red oak that lost half of its trunk or a hickory that lost over half it of crown.

I scanned in a SweetWood map and the cross hatching shows the areas where we will selectively cut trees. It show that no trees will be cut from the current camp area of Sweetwood proper. However there will be a several trees near the circle, a couple of cherry, aspen and perhaps several red maples and the red oak half way down the trail between the circle and the entrance to the woods. In all cases I will clean up the left ove limbs for fire wood for Sweetwood.The 8 acres of White pine can be thinned and will improve the stand.

Hopefully I'll go throught the woods and mark the trees this fall after the first frost and then a portable saw mill will come, set up, cut through the winter and to have it all done by spring 2008 and send the wood to be dried where it will be eventually be kilned dried. I intend to minimize damage to the woods and hope on the whole will be healthier and better for this very selective non-comerical cut. It should not affect the beauty of the campground and the woods in general.

If any of you have a question, suggestion, or comments please let me know. I am learning here about this process.

Never Thirst
Iacchus