You could do some coppicing if you have any use for the wood and it's the right varieties. Here I can do it with poplar. I have some I cut down 4 or 5 years ago and then a stand of spindly ones came up from the roots, but some of them are already 5-6" in diameter. With some thinning out in another 5 years they will be wide enough for me to make skis with.
I basically try to plant something for everything I take out, and to replace non-natives with natives. A coffee table from the Norway maple that a storm took down, and an eastern black cherry growing next to its rotting stump. Feels good.
Thats an interesting idea, I do have lots of cottonwoods that are coppicing, they are currently around 20ft tall and 2-3 inches thick. They tend to grow along the edges of the forest, as the conifers shade them out further in.
Are you planning on making water skis? I normally just cut a few each year for my runner beans, I have heard that the larger trees mill into good floor boards in barns as they are easy on animals feet. I do know they don't make very good firewood as they produce insane amounts of ash.
I have made wooden snow skis, with a poplar (well eastern cottonwood) core. It's a good lightweight material for that.
I had a number of exceedingly huge poplars taken down 5 years ago as they were threatening the house. I had some of it milled and had a dining room table made, and have a bunch for my own hobbying as well. It's a great wood, really should be used more simply because it's very renewable; cut it down and it comes right back Obi-Wan.
Yes, it's soft but it's easy to work, is lightweight but has good tensile strength (great for skis!), and has a beautiful tone -- mine had sat in the field for a year and had developed some beautiful spalting, rainbow toned. Mostly that goes away after it is sanded and so on and sits inside but there's still some there.
So my goal now is to see how long it will take for poplars to grow with the minimum diameter to make ski cores. I might not even need to hire a mill, might be sufficient to just get them to a minimum diameter, peel and dry them, and then plane them -- they grow pretty straight. Even not growing wide, ski cores are usually a composite of laminated strips, I could probably glue a number of narrower ones together just fine.
Pollarding is an alternative to coppicing. It is coppicing, but at a higher height, e.g. 10 feet, than coppicing. Different pros and cons, e.g. involving sunlight.Google the terms and check out Geoff Lawton (permaculture pioneer and guru) specific videos on the subject (coppicing etc.).
I basically try to plant something for everything I take out, and to replace non-natives with natives. A coffee table from the Norway maple that a storm took down, and an eastern black cherry growing next to its rotting stump. Feels good.