WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
HANDMADE
FURNITURE
From seed to table, LOTEW can turn your trees into live edge custom furniture. Specializing in dinning room tables, islands, bar tops, and coffee tables, LOTEW produces handmade, quality furniture for your sentimental needs.
FOREST
MANAGEMENT
LOTEW will provide you with sustainable forest and wildlife management plans dedicated to long-term property maintenance and growth. LOTEW follows domestic and international markets to bid your timber and maximize your financial return while ensuring quality work and protecting your property's future.
LOG
PROCUREMENT
LOTEW purchases logs unique logs to fulfill custom furniture orders as well as live edge slabs.
WILDLIFE MANAGMENT PRACTICES
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LOTEW uses ONX Hunt for comprehensive mapping. This program allows us to create food plot locations, bedding areas, tree stand and blind locations, travel corridors, etc. This tool can be a great asset to the landowner in being able to properly manage and access their property.
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LOTEW can provide food plot construction from clearcutting, stumping, grading, fertilizer/lime application based on soil sampling, and appropriate seed mixture based on seasonality and landowner goals.
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Timber sale valuation can help supplement or cover the cost associated with habitat and recreational construction.
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Uneven aged management is a good tool to use when developing a property for wildlife. A network of patch clearcuts for thick regeneration as well as bedding/edge effect for wildlife movement and interaction between open grown timber and thickets.
FAQS
What is the proper application for lopping tops?
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During a harvesting operation lopping top to a height no more than 4 feet off the ground is industry standard. As seasonality changes and snow pack brings tops even closer to the ground the idea is that it speeds up the decay process. In the case of hunting and wildlife value you want tops to be up off the ground up to 6'. This allows for areas of bedding, edge habitat for movement, as well as protects regeneration from being browsed off immediately. It gives the next growing class a chance to get tall enough to limit the impacts of deer browse and damage from antler rubbing. This process in effect extends the decay process log enough to allow thickets to form and extend holding areas for wildlife,
What are other applications to help curb invasive plants and fern?
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Fern is not an invasive species, but it can sometimes act as an impenetrable barrier to keep regeneration from coming back into its natural cycle.
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Stilt grass is an invasive and chokes out any regeneration from coming up
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In order to mitigate fern and stilt grass long enough to enable regeneration to occur, a cycle of herbicide applications is recommended.
Why is my property loaded with birch and nothing else?
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Birch has the ability to have a viable seed bank for up to 5 years and the quantity of seeds produced is at a much greater scale than your oaks, and hickories. Naturally the end result will be more birch if the timber is not managed appropriately. Birch does not have any significant wildlife value or timber value so if it becomes the predominant species in your property, a timber stand improvement is the only option.