[AT] OT Land prices was RE: B Allis

[Cecil Monson]

> It does grow some trees OK. I have been actively managing the timber crop
> since I bought the place. I hope to have a timber sale in a couple of years
> which should return most of what I paid for the place. I have hundreds of
> yellow poplar that are 16"-28" DBH, straight as an arrow, no lower limbs and
> TALL. I'm over-run with red maple and I also have a fair amount of oak,
> hickory, beech, some cherry, and a few linden (basswood). I've been culling
> garbage trees and cutting grapevines and doing a good bit of crop-tree
> release work around the good stuff along with planting a few thousand white
> pines just to put some color in the woods in the winter.
> Mark



	We had 140 large hardwood trees cut for timber here on the place
five or six years ago, Mark. Our yellow poplar (tulip), according to the
logger, all went to the nearest ship loading facility and was shipped
directly overseas to a veneer mill. I understand it brought more money
at the time than the oak, maple, hickory and white ash. All of these
were good sized trees but the largest and tallest was a yellow poplar at
125 feet. It was over 40 feet to the first limb. Most of ours were white
ash with red oak next although most white ash are dying from some kind
of insect that kills the tree from the top down.

Cecil