The Referral Process - For The Land Owner
Should you want to pursue forest management after meeting with Brook.
3. Brook will be available to follow up with you, answer any future questions, and help you with future forestry related issues as they arise.
- Your profile will be confidentially posted to our website for a two-week period during which forest resource professionals will have the opportunity to express interest in your project. Please note that no personal information will be available on the website; only a basic profile and general location of your land will be made available in order to help consultants effectively express interest in your project.
- Brook will compile a list of Forestry Professionals who have expressed interest in helping you with your specific project.
3. Brook will be available to follow up with you, answer any future questions, and help you with future forestry related issues as they arise.
The Referral Process - For The Forestry Professional
Project #: 04-18-05
Date Posted: 10/25/2017
Date Closing: 11/08/2017
Location: Alpena County, Green Township, T30N R5E & T31N R5E
Acres: 650 acres, divided into numerous units and locations all within five miles of one another
Forest Type: Lowland hardwoods, aspen, planted red pine
Work Requested: Forest Management Plan for QFP. Landowners have been working with a forester on and off for the past twenty years to implement a now expired forest management plan. They are looking to update their plan, enroll in QFP, and begin a new long term relationship with an interested forester. Red pine plantations (60-120 acres total?) are ready for a row thinning as are a few other areas of hardwoods.
Project #: 04-18-04
Date Posted: 10/18/2017
Date Closing: 11/01/2017
Location: Alpena County, Long Rapids Township, T32N R6E
Acres: 34
Forest Type: Red Pine
Work Requested: Thinning. Stand was planted in the 60/70's at 8 x 10 spacing. Every other row harvested in the 90's. Stand is due for a thinning. Average DBH 12-13", very little taper, 5/6 sticks tall, 190 BA. That said the small diameter, crooked and forked trees still need to be thinned out. FYI landowner is interested in working with a procurement forester, but is open to other options.
Project #: 04-18-03
Date Posted: 10/18/2017
Date Closing: 11/01/2017
Location: Alpena County, Ossineke Township Central, T29N R6E
Acres: 40
Forest Type: Northern hardwood, with component of northern red oak
Work Requested: Thinning and Forest Management Plan for QFP. Last thinning occurred 30 years ago. 30 acres of the forty are higher quality northern hardwoods, 15 of those acres have component of high quality northern red oak. BA varies 90-160 (avg. 130), where oak is present 16-22" DBH, 6 sticks tall, good quality. Where oak is not present 150 BA, basswood, sugar maple, and beech, 12-15" DBH, 5/6 sticks tall. No sign of oak wilt, very early stage of BBD (a few trees have waxy secretion very lightly speckled on trunk, majority of beech show no signs). I recommended a thinning to focus on capitalizing on some of the value of the oak, with TSI thinning on remainder of stand to retain the diversity of the stand, unless landowner decides to harvest out the beech. Declining aspen and dead ash (very small component) should be felled to prevent possible damage to oak stand retained. Ash and aspen can be left on site for landowner to use, or hauled off site.
Project #: 04-18-02
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Alpena County, Alpena Township NE, T32N R9E
Acres: 282 total forested acres, 50 acre harvest
Forest Type: Aspen-spruce
Work Requested: Landowners have been working directly with larger producer interested in higher quality aspen. This producer has harvested what they want and are no longer interested in working with this landowner. Landowners would like to continue to harvest lower quality and smaller pockets of aspen throughout property. Currently they are interested in clearcutting 32 acres of low quality aspen/spruce/fir 180 BA. Access is across a small creek so precautions would need to be taken. 20 acres of good quality aspen and cedar also to be harvested. I suggested waiting till ARAUCO opens up and there is more of a market for balsam fir. Landowners are amendable to recommendations on harvesting, how many acres, which units and when, they are just interested in keeping up their harvesting program. Currently they are not interested in a forest management plan.
Project #: 04-18-01
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Alpena County, Maple Ridge Township, T32N R7E
Acres: 15 acres
Forest Type: quaking aspen & northern hardwoods
Work Requested: large pockets of quaking aspen (mostly mature, some overmature, what is sound is sawlogs) within a northern hardwood stand. 180 BA, 6-7 sticks tall. Northern hardwoods comprised mostly of sugar maple, though basswood dominates a few acres. Basswood shows signs of canker, sugar maple mostly pulp with small sawlogs throughout. Landowners would like to clear cut the stands particularly areas with aspen. A few small pockets where aspen is not present should be thinned to retain best quality maple while focusing on removing declining basswood.
Project #: 60-18-01
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Montmorency County, Albert Township West, T29N R1E
Acres: 2.5 acres
Forest Type: northern red oak
Work Requested: A VERY small 2.5 acre harvest of all red oak trees within the trenched area to complete an oak wilt treatment. Red oak are decent quality, small sawlogs/bolts (average DBH 12") and scattered throughout acreage, my guess is about 75 trees total. Four symptomatic trees that need to be dealt with accordingly: saw into boards and delivered to mill by April, tops can be left on site, wood to small in diameter or crooked to go to mill must be piled separately and painted to denote symptomatic for landowners to burn over winter.
Date Posted: 10/25/2017
Date Closing: 11/08/2017
Location: Alpena County, Green Township, T30N R5E & T31N R5E
Acres: 650 acres, divided into numerous units and locations all within five miles of one another
Forest Type: Lowland hardwoods, aspen, planted red pine
Work Requested: Forest Management Plan for QFP. Landowners have been working with a forester on and off for the past twenty years to implement a now expired forest management plan. They are looking to update their plan, enroll in QFP, and begin a new long term relationship with an interested forester. Red pine plantations (60-120 acres total?) are ready for a row thinning as are a few other areas of hardwoods.
Project #: 04-18-04
Date Posted: 10/18/2017
Date Closing: 11/01/2017
Location: Alpena County, Long Rapids Township, T32N R6E
Acres: 34
Forest Type: Red Pine
Work Requested: Thinning. Stand was planted in the 60/70's at 8 x 10 spacing. Every other row harvested in the 90's. Stand is due for a thinning. Average DBH 12-13", very little taper, 5/6 sticks tall, 190 BA. That said the small diameter, crooked and forked trees still need to be thinned out. FYI landowner is interested in working with a procurement forester, but is open to other options.
Project #: 04-18-03
Date Posted: 10/18/2017
Date Closing: 11/01/2017
Location: Alpena County, Ossineke Township Central, T29N R6E
Acres: 40
Forest Type: Northern hardwood, with component of northern red oak
Work Requested: Thinning and Forest Management Plan for QFP. Last thinning occurred 30 years ago. 30 acres of the forty are higher quality northern hardwoods, 15 of those acres have component of high quality northern red oak. BA varies 90-160 (avg. 130), where oak is present 16-22" DBH, 6 sticks tall, good quality. Where oak is not present 150 BA, basswood, sugar maple, and beech, 12-15" DBH, 5/6 sticks tall. No sign of oak wilt, very early stage of BBD (a few trees have waxy secretion very lightly speckled on trunk, majority of beech show no signs). I recommended a thinning to focus on capitalizing on some of the value of the oak, with TSI thinning on remainder of stand to retain the diversity of the stand, unless landowner decides to harvest out the beech. Declining aspen and dead ash (very small component) should be felled to prevent possible damage to oak stand retained. Ash and aspen can be left on site for landowner to use, or hauled off site.
Project #: 04-18-02
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Alpena County, Alpena Township NE, T32N R9E
Acres: 282 total forested acres, 50 acre harvest
Forest Type: Aspen-spruce
Work Requested: Landowners have been working directly with larger producer interested in higher quality aspen. This producer has harvested what they want and are no longer interested in working with this landowner. Landowners would like to continue to harvest lower quality and smaller pockets of aspen throughout property. Currently they are interested in clearcutting 32 acres of low quality aspen/spruce/fir 180 BA. Access is across a small creek so precautions would need to be taken. 20 acres of good quality aspen and cedar also to be harvested. I suggested waiting till ARAUCO opens up and there is more of a market for balsam fir. Landowners are amendable to recommendations on harvesting, how many acres, which units and when, they are just interested in keeping up their harvesting program. Currently they are not interested in a forest management plan.
Project #: 04-18-01
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Alpena County, Maple Ridge Township, T32N R7E
Acres: 15 acres
Forest Type: quaking aspen & northern hardwoods
Work Requested: large pockets of quaking aspen (mostly mature, some overmature, what is sound is sawlogs) within a northern hardwood stand. 180 BA, 6-7 sticks tall. Northern hardwoods comprised mostly of sugar maple, though basswood dominates a few acres. Basswood shows signs of canker, sugar maple mostly pulp with small sawlogs throughout. Landowners would like to clear cut the stands particularly areas with aspen. A few small pockets where aspen is not present should be thinned to retain best quality maple while focusing on removing declining basswood.
Project #: 60-18-01
Date Posted: 10/16/2017
Date Closing: 10/30/2017
Location: Montmorency County, Albert Township West, T29N R1E
Acres: 2.5 acres
Forest Type: northern red oak
Work Requested: A VERY small 2.5 acre harvest of all red oak trees within the trenched area to complete an oak wilt treatment. Red oak are decent quality, small sawlogs/bolts (average DBH 12") and scattered throughout acreage, my guess is about 75 trees total. Four symptomatic trees that need to be dealt with accordingly: saw into boards and delivered to mill by April, tops can be left on site, wood to small in diameter or crooked to go to mill must be piled separately and painted to denote symptomatic for landowners to burn over winter.
