Cedar Harvesting Article

[RednekF350]

Not exactly a newspaper article but interesting nonetheless.

http://timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=3336

This was sent to me by Y-Buc-Bill as a followup to the sawmill article.
I graduated from Rutgers U Cook College in '81 with a degree in natural resource management and George Zimmerman, who is quoted in the article, was working on his doctorate at Cook at the time and was a teaching assistant in most of my forestry and silviculture classes.
The same logging family in Egg Harbor City from the sawmill article is mentioned in this article as well.
Scott

 

[woodjin]

Thanks for posting this Scott. It argues strongly for private sector lumbering doesn't it. George Zimmerman accompanied me to verify my measurements on the Mutha ("state record" cedar I found). we kept in touch for a bit via email but that kind of fell off. We had quite a conversation regarding Atlantic White Cedars. He is very enthusiastic about discussing them.

Jeff

 

[RednekF350]

Personally I would like see a few active forestry operations in the pines.
Almost everything we see in the pines today has been cut over multiple times, including most of the cedar swamps.
Afterall, if it were not for that, we wouldn't be able to enjoy such things as the Swamp Monster and corduroy roads.
Clearcuts recover amazingly fast and with that recovery, you will see more species diversity. The diversity is only limited when we intervene to manage a forest for a specific purpose. Lumbering would not be feasible in most ares of the pines but certainly pulp production is.
If anyone remebers the Parkdale clearcut performed around 1989, go back there today.
You would never know man had anything to to do with it.
It was a clearcut with the exception of leaving superior pitch pines as seed trees on approximately 300' centers.
Look at some aerials of the area across from Dutchtown pre and post 88 and then visit it.
Forestry operations are a tough sell because initial visual impact is substantial and immediate and general public doesn't have the patience to watch and wait for the almost imperceptible recovery.

 

[GermanG]

Not exactly a newspaper article but interesting nonetheless.

http://timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=3336

This was sent to me by Y-Buc-Bill as a followup to the sawmill article.
I graduated from Rutgers U Cook College in '81 with a degree in natural resource management and George Zimmerman, who is quoted in the article, was working on his doctorate at Cook at the time and was a teaching assistant in most of my forestry and silviculture classes.
The same logging family in Egg Harbor City from the sawmill article is mentioned in this article as well.
Scott

Scott, I wouldn't be surprised if we were in one or more of the same classes. I was CC class of 82, although I stuck around an extra year. I had Zimm as a TA as well. The place is totally different now. West, Kuser, Grace & Wolgast have all retired or moved on. Not sure about Jim Applegate, but he was close to retireing last time I talked to him. The pigs are still there, although they don't take kindly anymore to students getting juiced and playing pig rodeo (not that I'd know anything about that )

 

[dragoncjo]

Guys, isn't there a big forestry operation going on up by old tuckerton road? Just south of chatsworth.

 

[Teegate]

Guys, isn't there a big forestry operation going on up by old tuckerton road? Just south of chatsworth.

Yes. I posted photo's of it early on.

Guy

 

[RednekF350]

Scott, I wouldn't be surprised if we were in one or more of the same classes. I was CC class of 82, although I stuck around an extra year. I had Zimm as a TA as well. The place is totally different now. West, Kuser, Grace & Wolgast have all retired or moved on. Not sure about Jim Applegate, but he was close to retireing last time I talked to him. The pigs are still there, although they don't take kindly anymore to students getting juiced and playing pig rodeo (not that I'd know anything about that )

I would imagine West would have passed away by now.
Some of my best memories at Cook were the three week forestry field camp practicum and the nightly visits to Brady's Pub outside the camp.
The professors were all right there with you downing shots and shootin' pool (except for Boris Zeide). Good times and something I am sure doesn't happen today.
We had a wild game barbecue at Applegate's house at the completion of my wildlife management course that was memorable too.
Cook is now the Rutgers Scool of Environmental and Biological Sciences and it looks like the forestry and natural resource management curriculums have gone away. That is sad.
Cook was a great place to get an education and because of its agricultural grounding, I think the students and professors were more down to earth than most institutions of higher learning.