You can also do everything right and get a crap stand. My last cut I decided to spend the money and do it right. I let it lay a year, sprayed and burned. And I have a mess of competition and regenerated pines. But that’s what happens when you hire a forester who bends ya over prison style. Was sprayed ridiculously late and planted ridiculously late with trees I expect had been sitting in the warehouse two months. Within a month or two there were brown little pine trees everywhere. All the while I am hearing “ blah blah spray has residual, they will be fine blah blah.”Now that frost has burned down the junk he will be coming back and we will be having a discussion. Possibly followed by a discussion with the Forestry Department.