Ohio farmer improves 160 acre farm woods with selective cutting
D B Husted of Geauga county Ohio reports 16 years of improving cut over farm woods by removing weeds and inferior trees to favor white ash tulip poplar and oaks. In older sections white ash average nearly a foot in diameter and grow rapidly while openings receive white pine black locust and tulip poplar. Foresters estimate annual output around 500 board feet per acre from the older plots.