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Date: | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:46:05 -0600 |
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Stathi -
I have heard more about the contracting for ties from individual parties
than from the railroads per say.
I do know that when the USFS began to give permits for that kind of
harvesting, the hackers were given a fixed height, e.g. 18 inches or so ,
above the ground that was to be the height of the remaining stumps.
A large field of stumps like this of a fairly fixed height could indicate a
tie-hack operation. I don't think you find a uniformity like that in
typical logging efforts where massive numbers, and a variety of tree types
and sizes, were taken.
Plus, tie hackers are only going to be taking trees of a certain size
anyway, as they were felled in winter, stacked and stored on-site, and then
typically floated down steams with the spring run-off. Lots of smallish
stumps might be indicative.
Carl Barna
Lakewood, CO
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