Hey folks, welcome back. This is Andy with the Port Pearls Almanac. This is part two of our conversation with Brett Chedsoy.

If you haven't listened to Part 1,

hop over to the episode before this and take a listen.

For the rest of you, let's continue forward with this interview.

Now, when we're talking about these details of, like, you were just saying,

if you've got, like, a couple couple acres you could do it by hand.

I'm I'm wondering about the actual thinning process in terms of what you think about.

Is it something where it's like pulling a band-aid off or do you think there's a succession process where you don't want to thin everything at once and you'll take a couple trees every

year for three or four years until to help it transition as opposed to trying to do it so quickly.

I think, Andy, that lighter, more frequent thinnings are more favorable

from a civil pasture management objective than the way we typically do it in forestry

where we go in there with a heavy metal

and we do one big thinning and one big harvest all at once and then we come back again in 10 to 20

years and do it again. The reason I think that the lighter, more frequent thinnings are more

favorable for civil pasturing is, well, I'll give

you two or three examples. One is, trees are very opportunistic. So if we create holes in the

campy by cutting out, weeding out some of the trees, the branches of those trees quickly fill in

those gaps. So you're only creating a fairly short-term duration of higher sunlight levels.

So going in there and thinning, say, more like on a five, three-to-five-year rotation versus a 10-to-15-year rotation

is going to be able to sustain the higher sunlight down within a few feet of the ground,

which is where it's really doing us the most good to grow forages. The other reason I like lighter,

more frequent thinnings is trees don't like change any more than we do.

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