Casey & Company

“The mountain is on fire!” the logger in the driveway told me and I knew I would have to take a break from editing my “Lost Sea Expedition” TV series. The fire had started in the 55 acre timber sale the logger was cutting on our property. First I called the Rusty Dellinger of the NC Forest Service. Then I called my consulting forester Andrew Casey. Three things helped contain the fire on the mountain: We had a timber harvest plan in place: Andrew Casey had cruised, flagged an

Having the right number of trees is always a concern when managing stands of timber. Too many trees and they will grow very slowly, too few trees and they will turn into wolf trees (trees that have a wide-spreading crown) that have low timber value. Foresters refer to this as stocking level. NC Forest Service County Ranger Brandon Keener is thinning a stand of white pines with a brush saw in the photo. This stand was planted five years ago and after planting, natural white pi