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Grand slam of shite

rocksnstumps

rocksnstumps

5 year old buck +
In the Great Lakes area, a grand slam in the fishing world is catching 5 kinds of big fish in a single day. Kings, cohos, rainbow trout, brown trout, and lake trout. Difficult to do because they like different temps and areas/depths to hang out most times.

When I bought my land over 20 yrs ago already had autumn olive, jap honeysuckle, and jap barberry. About 5 yrs ago during a cut my forester mentioned he saw some young buckthorn. Grrrrrreat. Today noticed a big azz bush of multiflora rose. So there. Completed the grand slam of invasive shit for my area. Not including the acres of prickly ash. At least that is native.

So disgusted just had to vent. Sigh 😞
 
rocksnstumps said:
In the Great Lakes area, a grand slam in the fishing world is catching 5 kinds of big fish in a single day. Kings, cohos, rainbow trout, brown trout, and lake trout. Difficult to do because they like different temps and areas/depths to hang out most times.

When I bought my land over 20 yrs ago already had autumn olive, jap honeysuckle, and jap barberry. About 5 yrs ago during a cut my forester mentioned he saw some young buckthorn. Grrrrrreat. Today noticed a big azz bush of multiflora rose. So there. Completed the grand slam of invasive shit for my area. Not including the acres of prickly ash. At least that is native.

So disgusted just had to vent. Sigh 😞
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Now if you could only get some phragmites in your swampy areas you'd be set.
 
Glyphosate, 2,4D, Triclopyr. Buy gallons of them when they go on sale.

If you can afford a forestry mulcher, get one of those in there to grind it all down. Then spray the nasties that grow back.

Then plant native stuff that will choke out the bad stuff. And spot spray the nasties as they grow back.

It's not easy, but it should help a lot.
 
The forestry mulcher is not an option even with a big pile of money. Well maybe with a huge stash of Bitcoin to replace mulcher parts every 20 ft. Rocks, boulders, slope from being on glacial moraine/drumlin. It would all be hand work. It's not super rough terrain but bad enough that a 4 wheeler has to stay to mostly trails. Not enough ground clearance to clear the rocks. My tractor does a bit better being taller......until you rip off the hydraulic steer cylinder. That was not a good day.

Actually in the full sun areas I tolerate the native prickly ash some. A slowly marching mass growing from the rhizomes like a shield wall of a Roman Legion. That stuff just engulfs and overwhelms the invasive crap. When it encroaches where I don't want it gets the Stihl brush cutter treatment. The most insidious is actually the jap barberry because it can grow from full shade into full sun.
 
There are some NRCS program that can help with invasive management.
 
I had 10 acres of maple and basswood leveled 2 years ago and it really released the invasives. I also have glacial boulders everywhere.

I’ve been thinking about trying to burn it this coming spring to set the shite back and maybe help the native stuff. Do any of the invasive woody species die from fire?
 
Maddog66 said:
I had 10 acres of maple and basswood leveled 2 years ago and it really released the invasives. I also have glacial boulders everywhere.

I’ve been thinking about trying to burn it this coming spring to set the shite back and maybe help the native stuff. Do any of the invasive woody species die from fire?
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Most all of them will top kill depending on how intense the fire is, that can make it easier to spray the re-growth.
 
Maddog66 said:
I had 10 acres of maple and basswood leveled 2 years ago and it really released the invasives. I also have glacial boulders everywhere.

I’ve been thinking about trying to burn it this coming spring to set the shite back and maybe help the native stuff. Do any of the invasive woody species die from fire?
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Bill Winke has put out several videos on burning in his timber areas and some of the results. This one is probably too soon after his burn but if you search you can see him give further updates at later times. He also talks about his prep and methods in others. Sure there are other resources on burning process that are better but at least here he is talking about his goal on controlling invasives
 
Take a look at steering guards, Can find them for some models of tractors.

Could get a higher psi spray pump to push herbicide farther out, so you can not have to drive in every nook n cranny to kill invansives.
 
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