It would be interesting to participate in a survey like this. I used to think of myself as a small woodlot owner but after deadwood's comments about his 300-400 acres as a small woodlot, I just got downsized to a "micro" woodlot owner!
Now, I might have misread deadwood's comment but that's neither here nor there.
What qualifies as a small woodlot? In order to qualify for the greenbelt program there is a 15 acre minimum and it has to stay as a forest.
Tom and Ron's comments were right on target. I moved ahead with logging my property without the support of a Consulting Forester. Everything that I heard led me to my decision to remove the Virginia Pine....was it right? It wasn't for money. Heck, I was paid $4400. Not enough to influence my decision. I just thought it was the right thing to do before the pine beetle came back and I lost all of that pine. I got input from a variety of sources so that I felt like it wasn't biased and about a logger making money from me...Ralph didn't get rich logging my 20 acres that's for sure. I'd just like to see the results of this survey to get better ideas of what I might do. Right now, I'm kind of stuck. What to do next?
