silviculture treatments
Following the creation of a forestry development plan for your land, we can do most of the work for you.
Forest road construction
In order to carryout forestry activities or to have an access to a forest property, the building of a forest road is an interesting solution.
In order to respect municipal and environmental regulations, the planification of the road is very important. Drawning up the access depends on the owner's needs, the treatments to be carry out, the slope, brooks and other natural obstacles such as boulder.
Once the road identified, the next step is to cut all the trees inside the limit of the road to build. Municipalities regulations are different one other regarding the width of the future road (between 10 to 15 meters).
The next step is to bring a mechanical shovel to remove all the debris left from the cutting. Debris, such as stumps, branchs, organic soil are after buried besides the driving surface and the good soil extract from those holes is put on the driving surface. Usually, one ditch is necessary on the higher side of the road in order to drain the road itself.
When the road crosses a brook or humid gully, culverts are necessary. In order to lower risk of erosion or abondunt sediments, culvert have to be installed adequately specially for a brook crossing.
The ideal place to cross is where the brook is narrow with gentle slope and dry land. Culverts diameter is very important depending the amount of water passing through during heavy rain or thaw producing a sudden rise in brook levels.
When installing culverts, the culvert has to be in the same direction of the brook, fallow the natural slope to award waterfalls at the end of the culvert. To stabilize water flow, its important to place rocks of different size and geotextile tissue each side of the culvert.
Consult your municipality before installing culverts in order to inform yourself on their regulation regarding brook crossing.
