Many Southeast Ohio woodlands contain extensive areas of similarly aged, closed-canopy timber. While mature forest provides important habitat and mast, carefully located openings can add young forest, browse, cover, regeneration, and structural diversity that may be missing from the property.
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Creating a Mosaic
Forest openings can be used to create a patchwork of mature timber, developing forest, regeneration, and young-forest habitat rather than managing the entire property as one uniform age class.
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Wildlife Benefits
Additional sunlight can stimulate hardwood sprouts, blackberry, greenbrier, forbs, shrubs, and other vegetation within reach of deer and other wildlife. Young forest also provides dense cover for bedding, nesting, escape, and fawning habitat.
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Forestry Benefits
Openings can also establish new age classes of desirable hardwood regeneration and contribute to long-term uneven-aged or multi-aged woodland structure when planned as part of a broader forest strategy.
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Invasive Species Warning
Opening the canopy also increases sunlight available to invasive plants. Existing invasive species should be considered before treatment, and openings should be monitored afterward so undesirable vegetation does not capture the site.
Project-Based Pricing
Forest opening and wildlife habitat projects are priced individually based on the acreage involved, existing vegetation, terrain, equipment requirements, and desired habitat improvements. Each project is planned around the property's existing conditions and the landowner's wildlife management goals.
Contact Feicht Forestry to discuss your habitat improvement project and request a customized quote.
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