A while back I had promised a some what regular book review.....
Well, here is the second in the The Squirrely Acres Winter Book Review:
One of the books on my short list that I was looking forward to reading was The Woodlot Management Handbook by Stewart Hilts and Peter Mitchell.
Honestly, I would recommend reading this in installments - UNLESS your bookshelf is totally bare and you do not have an e-reader of some sort!
There is an enormous amount of information here and so many subjects are abstracted out here that one could spend the entire winter reading and rereading this to learn all they could on trees, woodlot management, and their various uses and purposes.
This extensive handbook will be a future purchase for my personal bookshelf. Even though I would not sit down and read it cover to cover, I would reference it in many situations.
Almost every situation and use of a wood lot is covered here. Over all the authors long to educate and awaken a sense of value in the reader that can be created in any woodlot.
Also, there is a section on how to begin your woodlot. Not all acreage has a woodlot, but all can benefit from the formation of a management system fostering a new one.
The three basic concepts in this book cover:
1. Knowing what a wood lot is and is not
2. How to steward the woodlot
3. What value can be added and enjoyed from a woodlot.
Even if you do not entertain any ideas of managing a woodlot, this book is very helpful in spelling out just how EVERYONE can benefit from a local woodlot.
This book is well worth at least a quick skimming to add it to possible reference sources for the future.
An activity I would suggest to accompany reading this book is to visit (here locally) the Shrader Weaver Nature Preserve and The Mary Gray Bird Sanctuary. At either site you can see examples of stewardship and preservation that can help you understand in a more personal way what efforts produce the best results.
-Suzanna
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