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Post by throbak on Aug 28, 2014 20:06:06 GMT -5
Maybe The Dnr Is being proactive Instead of waking up one day and saying what the heck have we done now and stopping a problem before it gets started. Like what should have been done on everything I listed If the Native Pin Oak is doing fine why take a chance that could grow into a problem I am not here to argue and I wont but if you have a choice between a proven native and a plant from Asia its not a choice Go Native from the looks of it those trees were not planted for habitat improvement any way
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Post by ms660 on Aug 29, 2014 21:11:22 GMT -5
Maybe The Dnr Is being proactive Instead of waking up one day and saying what the heck have we done now and stopping a problem before it gets started. Like what should have been done on everything I listed If the Native Pin Oak is doing fine why take a chance that could grow into a problem I am not here to argue and I wont but if you have a choice between a proven native and a plant from Asia its not a choice Go Native from the looks of it those trees were not planted for habitat improvement any way .You need to look closer. Actually they with the other 300 trees, (Bur Oak, Pin oak, White oak, Green ash, Sycamore, and Hickory, Sugar Maple Ladino Clover, Red clover,) that I planted with them have improve the habitat. When I bought the place it was a crop field .It is surrounded by corn and beans now. When the ST start dropping acorns I'll get a picture of the many deer , turkey that feeds on them this fall. Out of all I planted they are the ones that are providing nourishment for critters. |
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Post by jackryan on Oct 2, 2014 23:14:59 GMT -5
If it's from Asia, kill it.
They said all kinds of great things about Kudzu when they were selling it.
You'll be lucky to even have a live tree 20 years from now with what I see around here. Invasive insect species from asia have killed or are attacking and killing just about every native species of tree there is south of Bloomington. Most of the poplar are dead even if they don't know it yet. Look at the dead limbs in the top and the mushrooms growing on the sides of them 30 and 40 feet up.
You better be thinking about this when you are climbing trees with stands this year because those falling limbs will kill some one. I'll be surprised if we don't have at least one hunter killed this year by falling dead wood.
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