JAY – Selectmen voted unanimously to have Timber Resource Group Inc. oversee harvesting two town lots at the transfer station on Route 4 and one with a gravel pit on East Jay Road.

Both lots have a mixture of types and grades of wood with each forest stand different, forester Dale Robinson of Timber Resource Group told selectmen Tuesday.

Robinson said he would like to get the transfer station lot started by late winter and the gravel pit lot started after posted weight limit signs come down in late spring or early summer.

The town is looking at having about 40 percent of the 71 acres of the transfer station cut and about 30 percent of the 184-acre gravel pit lot cut, Town Manager Ruth Marden said Wednesday.

The effort is to help keep the forest healthy.

Robinson also told selectmen Tuesday that the subcontractor will cut over-mature, diseased and poor quality trees.

Robinson has received verbal permission from Cousineau Inc. to use a landing on its property north of the transfer station, he said, and he will get written permission.

Once harvesting is under way, the town should get a check weekly, Robinson said.

He presented selectmen with a list outlining the stumpage prices the town will be paid for the wood. Among those prices were those for red maple and spruce, both of which are on the transfer station lot.

Prices for red maple saw logs are $190 per 1,000 board feet for select grade; $140 per 1,000 board feet for No. 1 grade; $80 per 1,000 board feet for No. 2 grade; and $25 per 1,000 board feet for pallet grade.

Stumpage price for spruce is listed at $120 per 1,000 board feet for saw logs and $8 per ton for pulp.

If selectmen have any problems with the harvesting operation, Robinson said, it would be addressed.

In other action, the board voted to pay $4,800, the town’s share of the Area Youth Sports program’s liability insurance from a communications tower lease fund set up for recreation purposes, instead of through taxation. The fund has $26,266.20 in it, Marden said.