I'm a fan of felled trees on topographical contour (let 'em rot/compost in place as they catch rain/soil during storms) and not spending the time/money on chipping. Too many tree and power line companies around me deliver chips for free. Rotting logs are awesome habitat for microfauna (not that wood chip piles aren't).
Thanks for responding. I like that idea, and I'm leaving a lot of the slash to rot, and some mid size stuff, plus all the dead wood that was already there, but it's important to the land owner that he be able brush hog it if I leave and he cant find a grazier. Which he probably couldn't. A lot of the land he was brush hogging with a bucket loader right to the ground to push the brush off, so the field is all lumpy, and in some spots its down to subsoil and filling up the stream. His management has allowed Indiangrass to establish in some spots. Which is a huge asset in MA where native tall grass prairie species have been grazed out of the pastures which are now dominated by cool season grasses. Our summers are only getting hotter. I hope to have the soil covered by the end of the 2020 growing season.
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