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Our firewood and wood products come from our own private forest land in Southern Oregon and on the North Coast of California. Our forests are managed for the sustainable production of forest products while maintaining a healthy forest ecosystem. Our forests are growing at a faster rate than we are harvesting. Trees are selected for harvest in a way that ensures the long term health of the remaining stand of trees.
With selective harvest, unlike clear cutting, trees that are dead, dying, of poor form or overcrowded can be removed. These trees are carefully removed to prevent damaging the remaining healthy trees which are left with more space and resources to grow.
Our forests are habitat to many wildlife species including deer, elk, bear, cougar and rainbow trout. Our harvesting helps create a diverse habitat that attracts these animals.
When trees are overcrowded they compete for space, sunlight, nutrients and water. This can greatly reduce their growth, make them more vulnerable to insects, disease and wildfire. When the trees are thinned the remaining trees are more healthy and grow faster.
Much of our forest land was originally old growth conifer forest. Logging by past owners decades ago and a century of fire suppression by the government has resulted in an overgrowth of deciduous species. The deciduous trees displace and compete with the conifers that would otherwise grow back to restore the original forest.
Our hardwood firewood comes from harvesting these deciduous trees which we harvest to allow the conifers to grow. Conifers grow faster and larger and produce the forests of towering trees that the forests of the Pacific Coast are known for.
Most of our softwood firewood comes from thinning the conifers when they are overcrowded. When they are overstocked and too close together the growth rates can slow to a rate where they are hardly growing at all. After thinning or removing the hardwoods that are shading them, conifers like douglas fir and ponderosa pine can increase their growth rates dramatically.
When the conifers being removed in a thinning are large enough they are sold as logs to the sawmills to be made into lumber products. The smaller material is cut into firewood.
After thinning the trees they grow larger and after a few years they start to become overcrowded again. That’s when it is time to thin them again so they can continue to grow at a fast rate. In each successive thinning both the trees that are harvested as well as the ones left will be larger and more valuable.
Firewood in Humboldt County California
Fire Safe Forests
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Tree Planting
Reforesting and Planting New Trees
A common question that I get asked is whether or not we plant new trees when we cut a tree to make firewood and other forest products. This is sometimes a touchy question to answer since the answer isn’t always at first what people want to hear. The answer
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Campfire Wood
I sometimes have people call and inquire about coming by to pick up some campfire wood. A lot of times people want to go camping and only need a small amount instead of having a full or half cord delivered. The problem is I don’t have a retail location at this time
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Mushroom Growing Logs
I can supply bulk fresh green raw logs for cultivating shiitake and other mushrooms. I can provide both hardwood and softwood mushroom growing logs of just about any size and can deliver in Humboldt California and Southern Oregon. Contact me with the amount and specifications of what you want and we can negotiate a
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Rough Cut Lumber For Sale
We have rough cut lumber for sale made from logs harvested from our sustainable managed forest land. We can custom cut lumber into whatever sizes you want. We can do bulk orders or small jobs and make specialty cuts for arts and crafts.
We can do just about any dimensions and even include round
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Manzanita Wood
Manzanita Wood For Sale Manzanita Branches Wholesale For Pets, Birds, Crafts, Artists, Hobbyists and More
See our manzanita website for pictures and to buy manzanita wood.
We can provide manzanita branches wholesale and manzanita wood for sale for many uses. Manzanita is a small tree or more of a shrub that only grows along
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Wholesale Firewood and Firewood Bundles
We can provide wholesale firewood packaged in bundled firewood form. Firewood bundles can be made to your specifications for size, volume and packaging materials for retail sales. The wood can be custom cut split and dried to be ready to ship to your customers in plastic wrap, cardboard boxes or whatever shipping materials you
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Hand Peeled Logs
I can produce hand peeled logs or poles of just about any size. I have mostly Douglas fir poles but some ponderosa pine, incense cedar, sugar pine, white fir and grand fir at times. Most of the small logs and poles were wood with small knots or free of knots.
Peeling the bark off
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Pinecone Crafts
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Pinecones are prized by many for making pinecone crafts and used for fire starters. We can
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My son and I both plan on building cabins close to Mt. Shasta in approx 2 years when I retire. We really want to use as much recycled lumber and materials as possible to save cost, save the landfills, and because we like the really rustic look.
I OWN NO TREES AND OWN NO PORTABLE SAWMILL, SO I was thinking I’d be out of luck trying to get rough cut planks of oak and such for a price I could afford for our cabins.
Any idea what oak would run a board foot? Any special deals you might see forthcoming?
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Stephen