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["Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>]

> How large of an area do you work at a time? Do you set aside a goal,
> like an acre a year or how do you decide?


I started in an easy access area that is pastured, cause I wanted to
be able to get in there. Then I have two areas I'm working on, just to
have two modes of access. I have no real goal, just started in areas
that obviously need some thinning and where the entrance to the
logging road will be when I get the trail cleared. I'd like to be able
to go around the circumference of the property one day and have a
trail.

My main goal is to have firewood cut for a couple of years.

> I need to remember to take my tree ID book with me when I walk the
> woods.  Most I know, but there is always that one tree that you can't
> quite identify because you can't see the leaf canopy.
>

I have that problem coming here from Florida, most trees aren't the
same as South Florida, anyway. I've got ID down like you, mostly.
Sometimes have to bring a leaf back and the different oaks can be
confusing. Reason to mark them now is so I can identify in winter, I'm
awful at ID of bark. I'm cutting firewood in the cold this year.
Forget spring cutting, too many ticks. Summer is too hot.

Rob - Va