Forester A macho guy like me or sometimes a liberated woman thanks to affirmative action. A B.S. degree in Forest Management is required to be a real forester. Without that, anyone is just pretending. The current version of the law is crippled. When a real forester prepares the timber harvest it will be done correctly, you'll have more trees remaining, the property will look much better, and you'll make a lot more money.
Silviculture also includes improvement work done in young stands such as thinnings and pruning.
The myth that shooting deer is good for them. This is probably true of the deer population but not for the one that gets a hole blasted through him, but heck if it helps to raise your testosterone. State wildlife officials have worked hard over the years successfully bringing back some species that were almost extinct such as the native turkey, which are now as common as sparrows. However, most attention is given to species that make good targets. Log skidder A humongous piece of machinery, as powerful as 100 elephants, designed to rip trees out of the forest as efficiently as possible with little concern for neatness.