Following is a map of the Norco property with forest stands identified to be logged/thinned, with best estimate when a stand will be harvested. Considerations were made for the pheasant season, safety of the loggers equipment and operators, and for hunter awareness when/where setting up wildlife cameras and deer tree-stands.
Norco does not recommend having cameras or tree-stands setup in forest stands to be logged during certain seasons. Once a forest stand is logged, putting up cameras and tree-stands with the remaining trees is OK.
Forest Stand Cut Sequence
- Stand 4, early October
- Stand 3, late October
- Stand 7 West, mid Oct- end November
- Stands 2,5,6 , November
- Stand 1, Jan-Feb 2024
- Stand 7 East, Spring 2024
For anyone new to hunting around logging operations and changes in the forest, the logging activity can stimulate wildlife to be moving in new patterns of day/night, creating new paths, and smaller animals relocating dens/nests.
For anyone wanting to earn volunteer hours and can handle a chainsaw, Norco will be thinning forest stands 7West this fall and 7East next spring. There are requirements for the cutting methods, the forestry safety gear to have/borrow (from Norco), and working in teams of 2 or more. A separate detailed web post will be made about this volunteer program.
If there are any questions about the forest management plans, please email wayne@norco.club
More details about Norco’s forest management, are posted at this website: https://www.norco.club/about-us/norco-forestry-and-logging/
