The Walnut Street Hardwoods Philosophy

Your woodland offers wildlife habitat, protects its watershed and water quality, prevents erosion, provides forest products, and it is beautiful and resilient.  Both our foresters and experienced timber buyers are here to help you better utilize and maintain all aspects of your woodland. 

At Walnut Street Hardwoods, concern for forest health extends throughout Indiana, Michigan, and beyond.  Indiana has over 4.2 million acres of forestland; Michigan has about 19.3 million acres of forested area.  We consider every square foot of that acreage important!  That means that as a landowner you can feel confident in the recommendations that we make for your woodland.  We will try to do what you want us to with your woodland, but we feel ethically bound to maintain your woodland as a healthy ecosystem by using sustainable forestry principles. 

We hire only the best loggers to harvest trees for Walnut Street Hardwoods.  They are all highly experienced and greatly skilled.  Using a method known as directional felling they cause minimal damage to surrounding trees. They will also push or pull trees, and use sound skid trails that make good recreational trails after harvesting is complete.  We want to maintain the integrity of your woodland.

The truly amazing thing about forests is that they are renewable, and all products and by-products created during a timber harvest are utilized in some form or another.  The tree tops and stumps that are left in the woods after a harvest decay and release essential nutrients back into the soil.   Landowners can also keep in mind that all of the by-products produced by our sawmill are used.  The sawdust, all that we do produce becomes fuel for our boiler, which powers our dry kilns.  The bark becomes mulch for landscaping.  The lumber goes on to be used in applications ranging from flooring to fine furniture. 

Once trees are harvested we use our bandsaw headrig and small resaw, which produce little sawdust.  That means we get more wood from each log than those who use a circle saw or a just a bandsaw.  Higher yields from each of the trees that we cut mean that we need to cut fewer trees in order to produce the same volume of lumber.  Higher yields also mean that we get more money out of each log that enters our sawmill, so we can spend more on each of your trees.

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