Chesnut Forestry offers a wide range of services designed to remove unwanted competition
from your young pine plantation.
Doing so allows for the pines to grow with more vigor, as the limited resources of water,
nutrients and growing space are freed up for their use.
Services include (but are not limited to)
from your young pine plantation.
Doing so allows for the pines to grow with more vigor, as the limited resources of water,
nutrients and growing space are freed up for their use.
Services include (but are not limited to)
- Herbicide applications to control weedy and/or hardwood competition, applied by
backpack, 4-wheeler, tractor or helicopter;
- Manual removal of undesirable species via mulching heads, mowing, or machete;
- Assessments of plantations to determine level of competition and to predict the limitations
to growth;
- Prescribed burning (longleaf stands).
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| Early-Pine Plantation Rotational Management |
Early-Aged Pine
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| Somewhere in here are rows of loblolly pine, planted just three months before! Prescription? Band spray with Arsenal/Oust. |
| The 4-Wheeler has become an invaluable tool for the application of herbicides |
| Burning alone will only topkill most hardwoods. They will return with a vengence! Herbicides are needed. |
| Young Pine Plantations with high amounts of weedy and woody competition will most likely suffer high mortality early on and low vigor for many years. |
| This was a longleaf plantation that had large amounts of loblolly regeneration. Tim performed a hot burn on the site (did it damage the longleaf? Click Here). Many of the loblolly were killed. |
| We went in and chopped down all the dead loblolly and pruned others which were vigorous and large. The result is a wide open longleaf stand with scattered, valuable loblolly trees. The hope is that this stand will soon be covered with quail! The loblolly at left center was left because it had a bird's nest inside. |
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