Thunderhouse Forest Services Inc.

Services

Tree Planting

Thunderhouse enjoys planting trees. It's how the company got started. The challenges, the people and the legacy of a young forest are at the heart of it.

Experienced at planting container and bare root

Training to suit client specifications and local conditions
Quality control using crew assessments or self-assessment for company audit
Per tree and area based planting
Fully serviced mobile work camps
Difficult access experience and equipment
On-site refrigerated seedling storage
Seedling delivery from nursery

Tending

Competing vegetation can seriously jeopardize the survival of recently planted seedlings. Protect important investments in young plantations and promote faster growth by tending.

Manual herbicide application with backpack sprayers
Manual brushing with brushsaws or Sandviks
Aerial spray supervision

Pre-Commercial Thinning (PCT)

Keep your forest growing at its potential through optimum density regulation.

Experienced supervisors (over 1,000 hectares combined experience)
Conifer and hardwood
Commuter and bush camp operations

Surveys & Assessments

Regeneration surveys for planning and silvicultural prescription setting
Free-To-Grow surveys to determine regeneration success

Growth and Yield assessments for compiling yield curves and understanding forest growth
Ecological and FEC surveys

Boundary Marking

Ensure logging operations stay within approved boundaries to keep a good compliance record. Thunderhouse blazers are trained in compass skills to avoid "boundary shift" common to blind use of GPS's.

Navigation by compass with GPS verification
GPS supported for GIS applications

Slash Pile Burning & Prescribed Burning

When felled trees are limbed at roadside, up to 7% of the area harvested becomes covered by slash and will not regrow forest for decades. Burning slash is an effective and ecologically responsible way of recovering that lost land.

Prescribed burn plans
Slash piling for burning

Prescribed burn consultation
Ignition, suppression and control for burning operations
Certified firefighters and project planners
Autumn and winter burning
Private and public lands

Forest Inventory

Knowing what you will have at roadside before it's cut enables private landowners to negotiate better contracts. Confident harvest projections assist SFL holders to maintain just in time delivery to mills and meet directed volume obligations.

Operational timber cruising with strips or prism sweeps
Forest Resources Inventory sampling
Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) trained and experienced
Aerial photo interpretation and estimates
Remote location access

Site Preparation and Supervision

Decades of staff experience ensures a match between site prep method, site conditions, target species and desired results.

Block layout and mapping
Quality control
Achieve plantable spots
Will hire equipment

Forest Management

Registered Professional Foresters, Resource Technicians and GIS specialists on staff with experience preparing and supporting development of all aspects of forest management plans.

Wood supply modelling
Road location planning
Habitat prescriptions

Determine harvest areas
Areas of concern identification and protection
First Nation involvement
Protected areas identification
Silvicultural prescriptions (only Ontario Registered Professional Foresters can legally set prescriptions in Ontario)

Forestry Consulting

Let our experience provide you with advice and support in forestry and land management. The Thunderhouse Team brings decades of experience in Boreal forest silviculture, operations and forest management to your assistance.

Timber appraisals
Road and landing locations
Purchase tree seedlings
Scaling
Operational planning
Regeneration and tending prescriptions
Business proposals