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Principles and Practices of Sugar
Bush Management
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2Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
This workshop is another title in the
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series
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3Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Supporting partners in the
Caring For Your Land Workshop Series
• Ontario Stewardship Program• Conservation Ontario• Eastern Ontario Model Forest
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4Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
The Principles and Practices of Sugar Bush Management
Workshop Outline:
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Management Planning
Module 3: Marking and Harvesting
Module 4: Sugar Bush Problems
Module 5: Maple Orchards
Module 6: Maple Facts
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5Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
The Principles and Practices of Sugar Bush Management
Selected References:
1) A Silvicultural Guide to Managing Southern Ontario Forests available through the Ontario Woodlot Association (613-258-0110)
2) A Landowners Guide to Selling Standing Timber also available through the OWA
3) Sugarbush Management: A guide to maintaining tree health (available ???)
4) North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual available through the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association (OMSPA)
5) Protection of Ice-Damaged Sugar Bushes. Five extension notes available through the EOMF
6) Sugar Bush Management for Maple Syrup Producers (available ????)
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6Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
The Principles and Practices of Sugar Bush Management
Module 1 - Introduction:1) What is sugar bush management?
2) Why manage your sugar bush?
3) What are some of the general terms and concepts?
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7Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
What is Sugar Bush Management?
Is it …. Cutting trees? Is it …. Stringing tubing? Is it …. Making syrup?
Sugar bush management can be looked at as those activities associated with caring for your forest
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8Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
What is Sugar Bush Management? Scale is also important…
10 taps or 10000 !!
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9Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
What is Sugar Bush Management?
Proper
• It’s doing what is right• It’s being an informed landowner• It’s being able to adapt
• It means doing more then just tapping trees
• It is the area that most syrup producers don’t put enough resources into
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10Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
After all…
• Sap flows from maple in both managed and unmanaged sugar bushes
• Management takes time, knowledge, careful planning and COSTS MONEY
• Benefits aren’t immediate• Mistakes can be costly
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11Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
Benefits include…
• faster growth• more sap per tap• sweeter sap
• a healthier forest• a periodic timber harvest• a sustainable sugar bush
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12Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
Faster growth…
Which tree would you rather have in your sugar bush?
A B
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13Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
Faster growth…
A 5” tree growing in a …
Unmanaged Forest
• would take 65 years to grow into the 1 tap diameter class
• Would produce $345 worth of syrup over the next 100 years
Managed Forest
• would take 29 years to grow into the 1 tap diameter class
• Would produce $1260 worth of syrup over the next 100 years
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14Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
More sap per tap…
• A managed sugar bush is producing about 2 liters per tap more then an unmanaged one
• This means more sap from the existing infrastructure… more money
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15Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
Sweeter sap…
• Proper management favours trees that produce sweeter sap
• The decision to harvest one tree over another should be based in part on sap sweetness
Keep in mind, sap sweetness varies …
• Between trees (genetics)• Hour by hour, day by day and year by year
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16Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
A healthier forest …
Management tends to improve the health of a sugar bush
Sugar bushes are always vulnerable to weather
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17Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
A periodic timber harvest …
• Trees grow each year• Proper management means that the number of
trees is controlled• This produces a periodic supply of sawlogs
and fuelwood• Trees are thinned out of the forest to enable
the remaining ones to grow at a maximum rate
Careful harvesting is important!
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18Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Why ‘manage’ your sugar bush …
A sustainable forest …
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19Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Sugar Bush Classification
• Forests are classified into different categories
• Allows for comparison with•Other forests
•What is recommended
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20Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Forest Stands
• Forests are also classified into different STANDS
• Stands contain trees that are similar in size, species and age
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21Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
All-aged vs. Even-aged Management
All-aged Sugar Bush Even-aged Sugar Bush
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22Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
The All-aged Sugar Bush
• There are many more young trees then there are old trees
• The young ones will eventually replace the old ones
• Less taps/hectare
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23Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
The Even-aged Sugar Bush
• Most of the trees are the roughly the same age
• Similar in age does not mean similar in diameter
• Usually have more taps/hectare
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General Terms and Concepts
What’s better? – all-aged or even-aged
It depends on:• What you have now
• How much you have
• What kind of condition it is in
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25Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Tree Diameter
• Usually taken at 1.3 m (breast height)
• Called diameter at breast height (DBH)
• If the stem is deformed move the measurement up or down
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General Terms and Concepts
Tree Diameter
Which tree is older?
Tree ADBH: 36 cmHeight: 22 m
Tree BDBH: 28 cmHeight: 18 m
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27Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Crown Position
Crown position diagram Does any one have a drawing of crow position??
Trees occupy space!
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28Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Crown Position
•Open grown trees don’t compete for light
•Open grown trees have large crowns, thick stems and branches that start close to the ground
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29Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Basal Area
• Cross-sectional area of the tree
• Usually expressed in terms the total basal area for an area of land … basal area per hectare
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30Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Site Conditions
Trees growing on a poor site
• Site is important
•Impacts on management
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31Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Site Conditions
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32Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Site Conditions
Shallow site
• Shallower soils usually indicate a poorer sites
• Sugar maple does not grow as well on dry shallow soils, or on wet swampy areas
Soil Depth and Drainage
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33Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Site Conditions
Take into consideration site quality
• Thinning is a way of capturing the potential of a site
• Poor sites don’t respond well to thinning
• Good sites respond well to thinning
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34Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Tree Vigour
tree 1
Not Vigorous Vigorous
tree 2
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General Terms and Concepts
Stocking
A measure of whether a forest has too many, too few or just enough trees
• a site can only grow so much biomass
• diameter and site dependent
• main indicator of whether a stand needs thinning
Over Stocked – too much biomass
Adequately Stocked – just enough biomass
Under Stocked – not enough biomass
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36Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Shade Tolerance
• Trees require differing amounts of light to survive
Shade Tolerant SpeciesMaple, Ironwood, Beech, hemlock
Mid-tolerant SpeciesOak, Ash, Basswood, White Pine
In-tolerant Species
Aspen, cherry, birch, red pine
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37Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
General Terms and Concepts
Succession
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38Sugar Bush Management: Module 1 - Introduction
Module 1 - Summary
• Management means manipulation
• There is good management and there is bad management
• Management provides increased benefits
• Basic forestry terms
• Even/all-aged management
• Site conditions
• Basal area and tree diameters
• Stocking
• Vigour
• Shade tolerance
• Succession