Hundreds And Hundreds Of Little Fire Lines

The landowner you see here purchased this white oak forest more than thirty five years ago, and careful thinning over the years has made it one of the highest quality stands of white oak you will ever see.  He is planning to have a major harvest in about ten years, and has begun a burn program to stimulate natural regeneration before the trees are sold.  His first burn was three years ago, and I am finding new oak seedlings in the understory; that is gratifying. 

We will be doing another burn this spring, and just like last time, preparation is being done in advance to protect all of the crop trees from fire damage.  This would be difficult with a rake, but with a blower the work progresses easily.  Stay tuned this spring for the fire photos.

Twenty seconds of video would have been enough to show you how this is done, but I was having fun with a new video camera, resulting in over seven minutes of the same thing over and over again.  My new camera shoots high definition video, and I was surprised by the upload time to YouTube.  This video took THIRTEEN hours to send out over our rusty wire.  I probably should figure out how to adjust the settings on my new toy.