Thinning Study Field Day

Forests in the Big Springs RC&D Area make up approximately 67 percent of the land area which includes 632,673 acres of state and federal land. This means that approximately half of the area is privately owned forest land. These forests and the numerous wood products harvested from them are and will continue to be a valuable resource to the area.

Since the area was first settled, the timber resources have often been exploited by the current generation with little thought to the future. Mismanagement over many years and slow growing conditions has left large acreage's of timber with a very low value. Private landowners are often uninformed as to the value of existing timber as well as the value of proper management techniques to future harvests.

Alternative forest products such as ginseng, goldenseal, collecting of nuts, seeds, and pollen and many other non-traditional wood products have the potential of providing significant income between harvests of timber.

During the last several years the Big Springs RC&D has cooperated in co-hosting several workshops, expositions and field days for landowners on improved harvesting techniques, best management practices, and other products that can be harvested in a forested environment.  These efforts have succeeded with the cooperation of many federal, state, and local agencies, landowners and the Eastern Ozarks Forestry Council.  Some expenses have been paid with the help of various Grants.





Ag Expo 2007 - L to R - Peter Becker, Marie Obourn, Stan Murray

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