Harvesting Your Standing Timber
With 88% of Indiana's forest land owned among 190,000 private landowners it is the goal of Davison H.Q.S., Inc. to provide landowners with useful information for successful timber harvesting and timber management. Davison H.Q.S., Inc. has Indiana Licensed Timber buyers who work with the landowner to support Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI) in our forest management practices. Best Management Practices (BMP) are also used by our logging subcontractors, which offers the greatest potential to reduce nonpoint source pollution (NPS) and reach water quality and other forest health goals.
Joe Davison, owner of Davison H.Q.S., Inc., received his degree in Forestry from Purdue University in Indiana. As a consulting forester Joe evaluates the landowner's standing timber keeping in mind the overall health of the trees and life span of the forest. We have an appreciation for the beauty and life that standing timber adds to your land and thus our desire is to create a forest generations to come can appreciate as well. At Davison H.Q.S., Inc. we use selective harvesting methods that best meet your desired outcome for the forestlands you own.
For more information about harvesting your woodlot in the Owen County, Indiana area (or surrounding counties), please call us or email us.
Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI)
The SFI program at large is made up of the following components.
SFI forest certification promotes responsible forestry practices. To be certified, forest operations across the United States and Canada must be audited against the SFI forest standard.
SFI chain-of-custody certification extends into the marketplace by tracking fiber content from certified lands through production and manufacturing to the end product. Consumers who buy products with the SFI “percent-content” label know they are buying assurance of well-managed forests.
SFI fiber sourcing requirements address the reality of global fiber markets and the fact that only 10 percent of the world's forests are certified. Program participants must ensure the raw material in their supply chain comes from legal and responsible sources, whether the forests are certified or not.
SFI labels are recognized globally and provide a visual cue to help customers source certified forest products.
SFI program requirements are audited by independent, third-party certification bodies to ensure they conform.
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Forestry Best Management Practices (BMP)
A few Forestry Best Management Practices include:
- Planning Forest Roads to assure proper drainage. Proper drainage is the single most important factor in controlling soil erosion and keeping a road in usable condition.
- Skid Trails that follow general guidelines both while in use and closing trails after job is complete.
- Crossing streams using proper the guidelines and bridges or culverts if necessary
- Well planned and managed log landings that minimize the impact to the site, protect water quality, enhance visual quality, and increase operation efficiency and safety. They also can be attractive, long-term assets to a property.
- Not leaving litter or trash on an operation site
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Nonpoint Source Pollution (NSP)
Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution, unlike pollution from industrial and sewage treatment plants, comes from many diffuse sources. NPS pollution is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground. As the runoff moves, it picks up and carries away natural and human-made pollutants, finally depositing them into lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and even our underground sources of drinking water. These pollutants include:
- Excess fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides from agricultural lands and residential areas
- Oil, grease, and toxic chemicals from urban runoff and energy production
- Sediment from improperly managed construction sites, crop and forest lands, and eroding streambanks
- Salt from irrigation practices and acid drainage from abandoned mines
- Bacteria and nutrients from livestock, pet wastes, and faulty septic systems
- Atmospheric deposition and hydromodification are also sources of nonpoint source pollution.
We can all work together to reduce and prevent nonpoint source pollution. Some activities are federal responsibilities, such as ensuring that federal lands are properly managed to reduce soil erosion. Some are state responsibilities, for example, developing legislation to govern mining and logging, and to protect groundwater. Others are best handled locally, such as by zoning or erosion control ordinances. And each individual can play an important role by practicing conservation and by changing certain everyday habits.
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