| Timber harvesting is important to Central | | | | lower quality ones. This provides two distinct |
| Pennsylvania woodland owners. Did you know | | | | benefits. One, the growing space for the remaining |
| Pennsylvania forest products exceed $5 billion | | | | trees will be increased and allow them to flourish. |
| annually? The timber industry provides more than | | | | Two, it creates new areas where seedlings can |
| 90,000 jobs in over 2500 companies with a payroll | | | | become established. This helps to retain the full range |
| exceeding $2 billion a year. | | | | of trees from large old trees to seedlings. |
| Private landowners In Pennsylvania received over | | | | You can use select cutting to control species |
| $350 million per year in payments for timber harvests. | | | | composition, tree quality, and age structure. Select |
| In the more developed counties in Pennsylvania such | | | | cutting is easy on your forests and allows for |
| as Lancaster, Lebanon, and Berks counties it is most | | | | substantial biodiversity. |
| common to see select cut logging on small private | | | | Visual impacts of timber harvesting are temporary. |
| landowner woodlands. | | | | To the casual observer, the visual evidence of |
| Both select cutting and clear cutting are acceptable | | | | logging is nearly invisible, after three to five years. |
| methods for Pennsylvania timber harvests. Clear | | | | New tree seedlings and other vegetation renewed on |
| cutting in which entire span of timber is cut is one of | | | | the land make disturbed areas unnoticeable. |
| the management systems used by foresters to | | | | Pennsylvania timber harvesting affects only a small |
| regenerate or renew woodlands. | | | | portion of Pennsylvania's Wood lands. Each year. |
| Select cut logging is a technique in which individual | | | | According to the report Timber Harvesting In |
| trees or small groups of trees are harvested. | | | | Pennsylvania, put out by Penn State University in |
| Obviously you take the larger higher-quality trees, but | | | | 2004, the Pennsylvania annual timber harvest is less |
| you can also cull the woods of the many smaller, | | | | than 1% of current standing timber volume. |