Veteran’s Day weekend
I have Wednesday, November 11 off, so it is only natural
that I take Monday and Tuesday off for a 5 day weekend, and head over to the
property. Up at 5:20, catch 7:05 ferry,
stop at work pick up rain pants, leave Seattle about 8:00 and arrive in Post
Falls at 12:30.
I met with the forester and we went over the timber
management plan. He recommends doing
selective harvesting to take out an area of trees that has root disease and
planting a different spices that isn’t susceptible to the root disease, some of
this timber will be marketable. He also
recommends selective harvesting to thin out the trees to create a healthier environment
by reducing the strain on the resources needed by the trees, and finally
selective harvesting for the road to the top of the hill so I can build my home. He recommended waiting 20 years for the trees
to mature, before harvesting as a crop.
However, there is still lots of cleanup and thinning to make
my little forest more fire resistant so I will be very busy for many years, I
will not be retiring, I will be leaving my job at THE Seattle Public Library
and going to work as a forest manager ;)
Yesterday, Saturday, after the meeting with the ranger, I
went out to the property. I had thought
I would need to purchase a jack to shore up the container I had purchased and
had delivered on my last trip, but I used a level and discovered it was level
and plumb. I then scouted the trail to
one of the streams to look at maintenance needs and to see what it would take
to cut a fallen tree off the cistern.
After that, I used a measurement wheel to get a rough measurement of my
frontage along the county road, and then climbed the banks of the road looking
for survey markers. They may be fence
posts or they may just be a piece of rebar with a cap on it (or no cap.) I found a possible marker but I am not
sure. I think I need to clean a lot of debris
off the slopes and use a metal detector to try to locate the rebar.
I closed up at dusk, around 4:15 and headed back to town. I stopped at the RAINBOW RESORT for dinner and
had the Prime RIB special.
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