Susan and I went out, hoping to find morels, but I kept seeing recent storm damage. Beyond Susan you can see a treetop and a broken walnut tree. We found similar damage to walnuts and a few other species scattered about over 40 acres.
Here's a closer look at the first one, and then several more.
The good news is that this timber is due for a thinning. The downside of that is we like to pick our crop trees and the ones to cut. Wind storms don't make the same decisions that we would make. A thinning about 20 years ago left us with mostly good stock, so we will still have a good stand of mature walnuts about the time I am 105.
We have a bunch of trees down along the pipeline from the widening of the right of way, and now a bunch of storm damaged trees to drop, so we will have heat if I can spend time out there with a saw.
105, eh? :)
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