Soon after we moved here, we joined the Manitoba Woodlot Association. They did a walk-thru and made a number of recommendations. One recommendation was that we should harvest the mature jack pine forest. The recommended approach is to “clear cut” a fairly large section at a time. The reason is to flood the forest floor with sunlight to allow new jack pine growth to start.
The first picture is our current cutting area (we make our own firewood!),
The second picture shows the new growth on an area of the forest that we cut about five years ago.
(First Posted on Facebook in 2016)