Forest Management

Ueland Tree Farm is committed to sustainable forestry. This includes:

• Providing a sustainable flow of natural resources to local and regional businesses while protecting key streams, wetlands and wildlife corridors
• Maintaining a diverse mix of species and age classes. This supports a vibrant forest habitat
• Protecting and enhancing the hydrologic environment for streams, wetlands and subsurface flows so it contributes to the overall water quality and quantity in the Chico Creek sub-basin
• Supporting responsible public and cultural access to the tree farm consistent with its operation as a working forest

When practical, state-of-the-art logging equipment and techniques (such as cut to length low impact forwarders) are used in combination with both pre- and post-commercial thinning to allow much of the forest canopy to be preserved during thinning.

Over the past two decades, timber has been harvested from less than 20% of UTF property, primarily through thinning that is consistent with our long-term forest management plan. In most cases, less than one-third of the trees are harvested per acre during thinning operations, allowing the remainder to benefit from increased natural light and protecting the plants and wildlife that live on the forest floor.

• UTF Preliminary Forest Management Plan Map – 07/19/07 (PDF | 310 KB)
• UTF Preliminary Conservation Plan Map – 07/19/07 (PDF | 528 KB)

Mature stand of Douglas Fir

Logging Operation

Replanting after harvest

Protecting water quality and flow duration