Logging Faq’s

Low Impact logging
Our trained loggers work hard to ensure a low impact harvest. Our logging crews are experts at maintaining a clean, orderly site and preventing damage such as soil erosion during the timber harvest. If necessary, we even reseed logging roads upon harvest completion.

When planning your timber harvest, our company strives to minimize the impact of our activity on your standing timber. Cardinal’s Logging offers a full variety of logging and forest management services including reforestation and habitat restoration

We work carefully with the timber owner to come up with a complete harvest plan before any trees are cut. These trees fall within an optimal range best suited for harvest both financially and from a forest-management perspective.

Cardinal’s Logging never pressures a landowner to cut trees they do not agree are appropriate for harvest.

The area of a circle grows exponentially as its diameter gets larger. So a tree that is 20″ across has much more volume (board footage) than twice the amount contained in a tree that is only 10″ in diameter. That’s why we prefer to only harvest mature timber, leaving the rest to grow and increase in value. Specifically,

Cardinal’s Logging prefers to cut trees at least 18″ to 20″ in diameter depending on the species. Diameter for calculating timber volume is the width of the tree taken at breast height.

It is impossible to harvest timber from a woods without a footprint, but Cardinal Logging strives to minimize the impact on your property as a result of skidding logs and treetop debris as much as we can.

In fact, once our loggers are finished with a timber harvest, they always smooth out log and skid roads and offer reseeding with site-appropriate grasses.

That’s a hard question to answer because each timber stand is unique.

Buying timber on the stump is essentially when a logger purchases timber harvesting rights for a predetermined amount of trees from a land owner’s woods.

The easiest way to assess your timber is by allowing Cardinal Logging to conduct a site visit.

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