In the areas I have performed tsi, privet has taken a strong hold on the timber floor. There has always been privet on the land since we have owned it but it has blown up since all of my tsi activities. I would say out of 40 acres of timber it is heavy in all of it. There has always been a load of it but now it seems to be on the way to taking over the floor.
I have a lot of sapling hackberry, ash, hickory, and elm growing as well a mfr in a few locations but only a bush here and there. The deer browse the mfr a lot, young hickory and elms as well as the ones I have hinged. There are a few bushes of honeysuckle and the deer browse that somewhat.
The dpsm is very high in the area and we have taken a lot of does off since we have owned it but I feel that the population is such that I will never get back browse till a natural disaster happens to the deer population here. Our EHD outbreak in '12 helped but I, thinking nature had killed too many deer in the area allowed only a couple deer to be shot off the farm. Educations and experience since then have shown me I couldn't have been more wrong. I should of hammered them as hard as ever.
Ideas on what are possible undertakings to control the privet or do I live with it. I feel overwhelmed with spraying it all and don't think that is a viable option.
I have a lot of sapling hackberry, ash, hickory, and elm growing as well a mfr in a few locations but only a bush here and there. The deer browse the mfr a lot, young hickory and elms as well as the ones I have hinged. There are a few bushes of honeysuckle and the deer browse that somewhat.
The dpsm is very high in the area and we have taken a lot of does off since we have owned it but I feel that the population is such that I will never get back browse till a natural disaster happens to the deer population here. Our EHD outbreak in '12 helped but I, thinking nature had killed too many deer in the area allowed only a couple deer to be shot off the farm. Educations and experience since then have shown me I couldn't have been more wrong. I should of hammered them as hard as ever.
Ideas on what are possible undertakings to control the privet or do I live with it. I feel overwhelmed with spraying it all and don't think that is a viable option.
