What does it mean when there are tall stumps on your forest? Stumps are usually cut low for a couple different reasons: aesthetics, the fact that most of the value of the tree is in the first log, and operational reasons (it’s difficult to work around high stumps as a logger for variety of reasons). The first thing I thought was that whoever logged this land last did it in deep snow and didn’t realize that they weren’t cutting the stump low (which is usually the case when I see high stumps), but