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Special provisions

This sections of a timber sale contract are more restrictive to the logger than the sections we presented previously in this portion of the module, but a landowner can use them if they have particular concerns when it comes to protective sensitive areas on their property.

 

(1) Roads and trails must be opened and/or built before the skidding operation begins.


(2) Roads shall be left free of tree tops and limbs and in good passable condition.

 

(3) Logging can only be done when the ground is dry.

(4) Logging can only be done (date) to (date).

(5) Delimbing gates shall not be used in the logging operation.

Items 6 through 12 are self-explanatory.

(6) Damaged fencing shall be repaired with fencing of the like kind of existing fence.

(7) No use of surrounding fields during the growing season shall be permitted unless written approval is given by the seller.

(8) Any damage to buildings will be paid for based on a written estimate obtained by the seller from a local contractor for repairing to previous condition and quality.

(9) All litter resulting from the logging operation must be removed from the woods. Crop damage shall be paid for by buyer.

(10) Loggers are prohibited from carrying firearms and/or hunting on the property.

(11) Buyer agrees to push logging debris to the sides of loading areas to facilitate the replanting of these areas when the logging operation is completed.

(12) Tree tops shall be removed from streams.

 

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