20 acres of old growth for sale

Gerald_Beranek

Gerald_Beranek

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Just got some news from a friend in Gualala, Roy Stockton, a timber faller. Roy told me I got to come down and see this patch of old growth redwood near where he's working. He added, "I got permission from the owner to climb the trees, Jer! And it's all for sale too. Trees to 15 foot in diameter, Roy said. And for only 2.5 million dollars it can all be yours. Just think of the possibilities. Sounds worth looking at anyway. So I told Roy I'd go down to Gualala and look at it with him. I think I'll take the big shot along too.

So, if anybody has an extra $2.5 million laying around they could have a nice little grove to hang a line in.

I'll get some pics of the place and post them on this tread next week.

Later, Jerry B
 
Sounds like something "remedy" and her co-sitters should jump on if they want to do some real good. Not to mention have some trees they can legally sit in :)

Glen
 
I had to go to work. Just got back, 2 pm pst. I left a message with Roy to meet with him in the morning to go look at the trees, but I haven't got an answer from him yet. He's probably still out falling timber.

There's lots of small patches of old growth on private lands here. Just like what Roy found. And lately some of the owners are loosening up to let climbers come in. Funny, years ago that was unheard of. Just in the last year I've had three different property owners give their nod of approval to enter their lands and set ropes in their trees. Pretty neat. Though in the wording their allowance is limited to myself and maybe a couple of others. But it's a start and maybe someday we can actually get a real ropes course setup in some really big trees.

That would be cool.

I wish I had the bucks. Hey, spread the word around. Who knows what could happen?

Later, Jerry B
 
I hope I got this right. I made some composite pictures and resized them. I guess we'll see how I did. This first one is looking up to the canopy. There's some sugar pine mixed in the stand. The trees average better than 200 feet, though I don't think there's any over 300.
 

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Looks like it worked. This next image is of the redwood size. The average about 6 feet dbh. The largest have many defects from fire, burn outs and hollows. Good habitat. In fact I seen honey bees over 100 feet up in two redwoods.
 

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And finaly, the cabin. Yes there's even a residence. Very nice place too. Year around water, electric and phone. All located near the rual town of Anapolis, about 5 miles in from the beach, as the crow flys.

Overall, this stand of old growth is quite typical of inland stands on moderate ground and dry conditions. I seen no stumps or roads within the 20 acres. The density is good enough to set and endless ropes course.

All yours for 2.5
 

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It would be interesting to find out how many dominant trees there were on the 20 acres. I suspect that some of those bigger stems may crowd conservatively 10,000 ft.
It would be a shame to pulp the whole acreage for a mere 2.5. I bet the trees are worth more on the stump than boards to some treehugger type. Just like waterfront property, timbered property would be at a premium.
Mention it to Roger Barnett, I bet he'll buy it. LOL
Even if you took 5 trees that were sound and got an average of 2$/ft. for ultrafine grained old growth it would make a 100,000$ dent for a down payment, given that the best market was found.
Anyway, nice pictures of some beautiful green gold.
John
 
The sale of the property is contingent on preserving the trees. Which is all fine, with me. However,I most certainly would not want to see the State or the Coastal Conservency grab it before a private interest can. Because the State put a fence around the Headwaters aquisition, 7,000 acres paid for by Joe Taxpayer. "It's too fragile," they say... "to have people tramping around in." So now, only they can enter that land. And with that tract record it's likely they would do the same here.

I'd more like to see,, an arbor-interest do something with it. Like the canopy tours they're doing the the tropics. With the grade in the land here and a super zip line course a person could zig-zag through the canopy of these redwoods for,,, well, a long long ways.

I think it's about time something like that happened here. I'd like to see it before I pass on.

Jerry B
 
could you give out mmore info on the canopy tours in the tropics?
Ithink somewhere there is an organization to aid in a private purchase. this could go a long way for furthering arboriculture. the possibilities also include research and traing.
possibly some university hook up
I was out there onthe tree fund climb this spring. If youve never seen a coastal up close its time to get out there and look!
 
Mark, It's good to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed the Redwood Climb video. Anyway, there's a number of different outfits doing the canopy tour thing in the tropics, though I can't name one specifically. But I believe a couple of members in this forum could be of some help there. One, Dan House helped ban together some climbers to go on a tour in Costa Rica. And I think there's an outfit advertising on Tree Climbers International for that camp.

Hopefully word about this 20 some odd acres of old growth redwood will find a buyer that would do the canopy tour thing. It would be a blast.

Jerry B
 
WOW what a grove.

I hope that it will be owned by someone who knows the true value of what they are.

The Rainforest climb is thru Joe Maher and Abe Winters. They have a coast climb and a mountain climb planned.

Here is the link: Panama Trip
 
G'day my Northern Hemishpere colleagues.

Can somebody tell me about the BigShot and how it would be used to get you up one of those Redwoods (Gerald did say he was going to take one with him)? The branches don't look like they would have much diameter - then again the pictures may be deceiving. Long flipline?

Nice Trees - I like the idea of having a climb there one day.

Cheers Davo.
 
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