Legacies, as most in the rural countryside know, are big parts of the agricultural world.
That’s no different in the woods than it is on dairy farms, beef farms or crop farms.
A visit today with a state Department of Natural Resources forester brought that to mind. He noted that legacies play major roles in the ways forests and woodlots are managed.
Considering that, his notion makes a world of sense. Forestry and woodlot management is something that isn’t always done for current generations — they’re often done with a generation or two down the road in mind. Trees, after all, don’t grow as quickly as alfalfa, corn, Holsteins or Herefords.
Few forestry or woodlot management plans are similar, because nearly everyone who manages a forest or woodlot has a different idea of what that woods should look like; what species of trees should be there and what species of critters it might benefit. Some might want to hunt in the woods; some might want to use it only as an economic investment; some might see it only as a place to sit on a stump to reflect and wax poetic.
Whatever the case, those forests and woodlots are places that hold great values in legacies.
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