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TREE FARMING

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The term “Tree farming" was first used in 1940. Farming = continual stewardship and production of goods year after year. By linking the term "farming" with trees. Tree farming is the art and science of growing, harvesting, and marketing large, woody plants. Trees are fascinating, lovely, noble, and enjoyable to grow. (OR) Tree farming is also a business, one that uses natural phenomena (plants, soil, rain, and sunshine) to produce commercial goods and materials

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Tree farm stewardship is using property to produce commodities while preserving the intrinsic productivity of the land. Tree farm practices should never abuse, erode, pollute, or otherwise render land, yours or your neighbor’s, unfit for agriculture. Good stewardship means protecting water and air quality, too. Fortunately, good stewardship and innovative tree farming go hand-in-hand.

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Innovative tree farmers grow multiple species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants for commercial purposes. Growing a single species for a single harvest many decades away is too unprofitable for serious tree farmers. Moreover, the transition from mono-cropping slow-growing species to multi-cropping fast-growing species is almost too easy to avoid. Tree farmers know that “ good planning is important.”

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Proper tree farm plans have four parts :-

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Inventory:- The first step in planning is to inventory and evaluate the soil, topography, climate, existing plants, and plants that could potentially grow on your property. Goals:- The next step is to decide what tree farm products you wish to produce and market; tree farming is a business, and marketing is central to any business plan.

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Treatments:- Next, prepare a schedule and budget for the treatments and practices you will apply to accomplish your production and marketing goals. Monitoring:- Finally, devise a system for measuring and recording what you do and how the trees are growing.

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Planning increases

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BEST SPECIES

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To meet the profitability goal, the ideal tree farm species should have the following characteristics:

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TREE FARMING FORESTS On tree farm plantations the trees are all the same age. They are evenly spaced. As they grow, all the trees have similar heights, crown shapes, crown lengths, and stem diameters. Structure is homogeneous. In forests the trees are never the same age. Trees are never evenly spaced. As they grow they diversify into unequal heights, crown shapes, crown lengths, and stem diameters. Structure in forests is heterogeneous horizontally and vertically.

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BEST HERBACIOUS PLANTS:- Best of the Best : Sword Fern ( Polystichum munitum ) Runner-Up : Stinging Nettle ( Urtica dioica ssp. gracilis ) THE BEST SHRUBS:- Best of the Best : Scouler Willow ( Salix scouleriana ) Runners-Up : California Hazelnut ( Corylus cornuta var. californica ) Oceanspray ( Holodiscus discolor ).

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THE BEST HARDWOODS :- Best of the Best : Bigleaf Maple ( Acer macrophyllum ) Runners-Up : Oregon Ash ( Fraxinus latifolia ), Bitter Cherry ( Prunus emarginata ). THE BEST CONIFERS:- Best of the Best : Western Red Cedar ( Thuja plicata ) Runners-Up : Alaska Yellow Cedar ( Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ), Redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens )

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Bigleaf Maple (Acer macrophyllum )

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Western Red Cedar ( Thuja plicata )

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