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User: Joe Simmons

Created on: 2013-04-13

Observation Date 2008-01-21

Comment:
West Michigan Tree Service, Grand Rapids, MI www.westmichigantreeservices.com started harvesting poplar trees in the T5 plots on January 21, 2008 and finished harvesting the trees on February 11, 2008. The first thing they did was harvest the non-poplar trees so that we would have a weight on poplar tree biomass vs non-poplar tree biomass. January 21st they cut all the non-poplars from T5R1. January 22nd they cut all the non-poplars from T5R2 and 1/2 of the T5R3 plot. January 23rd they finished cutting the non-poplars from T5R3. January 24th & 25th they harvested the poplars from T5R1, including the chipping and weighing of the biomass. January 25th, 28th & 29th they harvested poplars from T5R2, including the chipping and weighing of the biomass. January 29th, 31st, & February 1st they harvested T5R3, including the chipping and weighing of the biomass. February 1st and 2nd they harvested T5R4, including chipping and weighing of biomass, they finished chipping and weighing biomass from T5R4 on February 4th. February 2nd, 4th, & 5th they harvested T5R5, chipping and weighing biomass for T5R5 was done on February 4th and 5th. February 6th & 7th they harvested T5R6, chipping and weighing biomass was done on February 7th, 8th, and 11th for the T5R6 plot. February 11th they chipped the non-poplars from T5R6. February 5th & 6th they harvested the C14 study area, including the chipping of the biomass. All the biomass was chipped into the back of trucks and weighed at the KBS Dairy Farm truck scales. After taking truck weights the trucks were emptied at the KBS Grounds Department and the chips were used for landscaping, including walking trails at the Gull Lake site and other trails and the KBS bird sanctuary. All equipment used for poplar tree harvested was supplied by West Michigan Tree Service.

Areas:
T5

Observation Type:
Harvest

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