| Area | North Fork Ten Mile |
| Topic | Tour: Ground Photos Low Impact Timber Harvest and Roads NF Ten Mile #3 |
This photo shows slash distributed back over the forest floor after selective harvest. In some places, some soil is spread over the slash. Ecotours on horseback in summer are a part of activities on the Parker Ranch and visitors actually tour places like this where timber harvests have recently been conducted. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Young conifers and ferns sprout from areas where slash was scattered after a timber harvest within the last two years. Note that large diameter trees have been retained to help preserve the moist, cool environment that allows young conifers to thrive. Logging plans for the Parker Ranch extend through four harvest cycles over 60 years and the larger redwood may actually be taken in future cycles as younger adjacent trees mature and begin to crowd it. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Lynwood Gill addressing SRF field trip attendees with an old growth tree (note fire scars) in the background. Recent harvests on this site had left these dominant overstory late seral trees but had thinned many of the second growth trees surrounding. Photo by Pat Higgins.
This Douglas fir stump in the foreground is evidence to recent timber harvest but larger, late mature redwoods were left to preserve the microclimate and to maintain forest health. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Two SRF field trip attendees look down cable skyline corridor with adjacent late seral redwood with fire scars which were not harvested in recent entry. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Looking down fifteen foot wide cable corridor extending across the valley to the other ridge. Note that some limbs of adjacent trees have been knocked off but that the trees remain in good health. The forest for 150 feet on each side of this corridor was thinned. Photo by Pat Higgins.
The old growth redwood with fire scars stands adjacent to sprouting conifers and shrubs not long after adjacent timber harvest. Note that the spreading of slash has retained soils and that there is no opportunity for surface erosion. Photo by Pat Higgins.
Field trip retreats up dormant logging road which is sprouting grass. Photo by Pat Higgins.
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