Jerry-B-WI
5 year old buck +
Found this Youtube today. There might be hope for ash trees after all.
Hope For Ash Trees
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SD51555
5 year old buck +
That's the first I've heard of that. Seems like they need to speed up how to hunt down the survivors, and teach people how to make their own clones from cuttings and get back to putting them on the landscape. I bet the clones without crossbreeding are also resistant.
Also makes me wonder if a guy should avoid cutting everything until the disease gets there. If we kill everything ahead of time, we'll never know if there are resistant trees on our own land.
Also makes me wonder if a guy should avoid cutting everything until the disease gets there. If we kill everything ahead of time, we'll never know if there are resistant trees on our own land.
Bill
Administrator
I've a stand of black ash that filled in an area we cleared to run new fence for the neighbor. So far so good. But if we go the CWD route we should kill them all to save them.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
That's where my head went too. I only cut my ash in the winter, so they sprout back quickly. I am going to have to learn how to deal with the resprouts though. I've got stumps with multiple 12 foot long sprouts. Wondering if I need to trim them back to 1, or let them figure it out on their own.
Bill
Administrator
That actually sound like good stem count early on. But long term, if they make it, that may not be good. My lot at home is 5 acres of chestnut oaks that were logged about 30/40 years ago. Lots of double and triple trunks. Probably not a bad thing in the wild but in a semi neighborhood area they look like crap as the weaker trunks die and rot standing.
Wood peckers love it though.
Jerry-B-WI
5 year old buck +
I've got acres of dead ash. Talked to a tech. from the NRCS a couple weeks ago at an outdoor show. I asked about how to keep invasive out of the dead ash and he said to plant something that will give me canopy. Don't know what would give a quick canopy. Looks like I'll have an upward battle.
Jerry-B-WI
5 year old buck +
You'd think the USDA or Forest Service would jump in on developing a plan to expand on what Iowa is doing.
Natty Bumppo
5 year old buck +
This is considered best practice by ecologists and foresters at least here in Mass. Don't fell them until they shows signs of EAB...epicormic branching, blonding, and exit holes.
I am just starting to get EAB here in NW Mass. I leave all the healthy ash standing until I see the first signs. Then down it comes. Who knows, maybe I'll have a survivor?
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
That's great news! Hopefully they can clone genetically-resistant trees and harvest seeds to regrow ash forests. Let's hope.
I spent yet another day last weekend cutting and burning some dead ash for a food plot expansion. Ash were never my favorite trees, but it still sucks to see a species die off in waves like that. I have a couple acres that was probably close to 50% mature ash trees and they are all dead.
I didn't realize that there are any survivors of EAB, so that video made my day. I'll have to keep an eye out for survivors.
I didn't realize that there are any survivors of EAB, so that video made my day. I'll have to keep an eye out for survivors.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Around my neck of MN, the deer absolutely smash stump sprouts and young ash regen. One of the heaviest browsed species in my woodlot.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
It’s a big deal up by me too. Short of ROD, I’d put ash sprouts and tips at the top of my browse preferences in a tie with basswood.
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Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
I'd be tempted to fell all ash, maple, aspen, and basswood at my place if I didn't think it would make the property less desirable to most everyone but the purest of hunters and bring on a buckthorn explosion that I dont have time to manage..
