Hawthorn trees/shrubs what to do with them?

[Tangler]

Location NH, plant: native hawthorn trees/shrubs.
In my efforts to increase food for deer and turkey would you:
1. Leave alone
2. cut and allow them to stump sprout (reset them)
3. kill (not really serious considering this because they seem like a good native plant but wanted to know what folks thought).
They are in an area I am trying to get more sunlight to the ground to increase growth of food for deer and turkeys. in a bottomland / wetland area. I have killed a lot of maple in this area to increase forb growth and also plan on disturbing the soil. I left some maple stumps untreated to act as mineral stumps (stump sprouts). Thoughts?

 

[Telemark]

1 for the shrubs

2 for the trees

 

[Tangler]

1 for the shrubs

2 for the trees

Thanks!!!

 

[rocksnstumps]

Do you know if your varieties of Hawthorne fall fairly quickly or persist for awhile? My native ones fall mostly in Sept. Think ones like Washington Hawthorne can drop later. For me I don't try to eradicate my Hawthorne but since they are not critical for food as other stuff also around I don't feel too bad dropping some for areas that need more sunlight like edge of food plot or encroaching on trails.

Again they do provide some bennies, just not a major contributor for nutrition due to timing much like my plum

 

[Tangler]

Do you know if your varieties of Hawthorne fall fairly quickly or persist for awhile? My native ones fall mostly in Sept. Think ones like Washington Hawthorne can drop later. For me I don't try to eradicate my Hawthorne but since they are not critical for food as other stuff also around I don't feel too bad dropping some for areas that need more sunlight like edge of food plot or encroaching on trails.

Again they do provide some bennies, just not a major contributor for nutrition due to timing much like my plum

I don’t know what variety they are.
Thanks for the help!

 

[gurgalunas]

IIRC, pears can be grafted to Hawthorne.

When I was in the horticulture field, I recall that Washington Hawthorne got horribly infested with Cedar-hawthorne and cedar-quince rusts in my area.