Harvesting trees

This morning G and I were out in our woods at 7am with a Forester.  He is marking trees to be harvested.  Since all of our Ash trees will die do to the Emerald Ash Bore infestation we need to cut them while they are still alive.  There are a few other mature trees that will be cut too. This actually is quite positive for the woods as other trees will then grow better.  He marks the trees, estimates the height, and makes a list of the trees to be cut.  This is then sent to about 30 cutters for bids.  Our woods is not real mature so we do not have a lot of large trees other that the Ash.  He said we probably would not harvest again for 15 years.