Free informative ‘Field Day’ planned to educate landowners on harvesting lumber

SPENCER- Learn all about timber sales at this free forestry field day for landowners, scheduled on Saturday, May 4, from 9 AM to 1 PM. Perry Seitzinger, Consultant Forester, and JT Brickyard Timberland LLC Property Manager, will lead the tour. Topics to be discussed include: meeting the landowner’s goals and objectives, how a timber sale can improve your forest ecosystem, using a professional forester, what trees to select for harvest, advertising the sale and sale contract language, best management practices to protect the site, and a logging demonstration, if the logging is still underway.