Jerry-B-WI
5 year old buck +
Found this Youtube today. There might be hope for ash trees after all.
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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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.
That's great news! Hopefully they can clone genetically-resistant trees and harvest seeds to regrow ash forests. Let's hope.Found this Youtube today. There might be hope for ash trees after all.
Around my neck of MN, the deer absolutely smash stump sprouts and young ash regen. One of the heaviest browsed species in my woodlot.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.
Around my neck of MN, the deer absolutely smash stump sprouts and young ash regen. One of the heaviest browsed species in my woodlot.