That’s not really how it works where I live. BTW, I have about 25 acres of forest. The rest is field (lawn, actually). I bought 205 acres of it from the guy that bought it at auction a few months before. He logged it and sold it to me for $15,000 less than he paid for it. When his crew was done, I was left with property that had no signs that it had been logged except for two things:
1. About a hundred cords of “unsatisfactory” trees on the ground.
2. Four small roads built to allow his equipment to get access through the 900 foot depth of the property. It is common for folks to sell “a few” trees around here and actually do surprisingly well, considering. There are a lot of small sawmills around here looking for wood.
However, the recent tornado put a damper on it. My neighbor lost literally thousands of large trees. I’m cutting firewood from it as fast as I can. I had to buy a 25 ton log splitter because that is the ONLY way you can split hickory. And there is a LOT of it.
205 acres = 20 acres