Trying to get a handle on this "coppiced wood" business.
Seems that you manage a woodlot by cutting some treess, and allowing the tree to re-grow from the remaining stump, which apparantly produces numerous shoots as opposed to a single stem like a tree grow from a seed in the ground. Then the stems can be harvested when they reach whatever diameter. Increased yields is what it's all about, I guess?
Trouble is, I've wandered the woods a time or two, and came across a few stumps here and there, but don't recall seeing many that were sprouting new growth, let alone any that had harvestable new growth(say, stuff 3-4 inches in dia.) growing from it. It's been my observation that a stump, left in the woods........rots.
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Seems that you manage a woodlot by cutting some treess, and allowing the tree to re-grow from the remaining stump, which apparantly produces numerous shoots as opposed to a single stem like a tree grow from a seed in the ground. Then the stems can be harvested when they reach whatever diameter. Increased yields is what it's all about, I guess?
Trouble is, I've wandered the woods a time or two, and came across a few stumps here and there, but don't recall seeing many that were sprouting new growth, let alone any that had harvestable new growth(say, stuff 3-4 inches in dia.) growing from it. It's been my observation that a stump, left in the woods........rots.
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