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This site is ideal for conducting controlled burns, given that the bulk of this parcel <br /> is surrounded by the reservoir and there is an existing roadbed along the western <br /> property line. We are recommending a understory burn two to three years prior to <br /> the group opening harvests and improvement cut thinning to help knock back the <br /> red maple and sweetgum understory. This will also help encourage more <br /> advanced oak regeneration. We also recommend conducting another burn three <br /> years following the improvement cut thinning and group selection openings to <br /> further improve oak regeneration in the thinned stands and oak regeneration in <br /> the harvested group openings. <br /> About 10 to 15 years following the light improvement cut thinning we recommend <br /> harvesting another twenty five percent of the stand in another set of small group <br /> openings. These should be located in the areas with the best advanced oak <br /> regeneration. <br /> Based on this timetable our forest management prescription is as follows: <br /> Forest Management Schedule (Parcel C) <br /> Acres Harvest Replant Mark and cut Improvement <br /> Parcel C3 Cutover in Group Cut Thinning <br /> Shortleaf Pine _ O enin s <br /> 19 2013 2014 _ 2015 2018 2018 2021 <br /> (1 ac) (1 ac) (4.5 ac) (13.5 ac) <br /> ] Y J <br /> 1 <br /> f: t � _•- _. Wiz' 4 i. :.. <br /> Parcel C <br /> OWASA-Peninsula North Page 11 <br />