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Post by sd51555 on Jun 1, 2021 10:24:00 GMT -6
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Post by leexrayshady on Jun 1, 2021 12:43:11 GMT -6
crazy what a little bit of sunlight will do
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 1, 2021 20:50:36 GMT -6
Can you explain a bit more what you did there?
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 1, 2021 20:59:50 GMT -6
Can you explain a bit more what you did there? My plot wraps around a spot that is full of trees. I never blasted it out of there because there were too many trees. As I blasted other spots around it, I decided to keep it and cut and fold in all the ash, aspen, tag alder, maple, willow, and any huge balsams and black spruce. I kept the dogwood, virburnum, hazel, birch, oak, basswood, and small balsams and black spruce. All the trash is still in there and piled as high as I could get it. It's of course starting to settle, but it seems the regen is taking over as quickly as the pile settles. So the sunlight has been hitting the beneficials for the past couple springs now, and it's really starting to bush out and thicken back up. I get lots of grouse around this spot, and I suspect it's a combo of the improved cover, the clover, and the improved mast around this spot. I'll throw up tomorrow's pics in just a minute here... |
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Post by Foggy on Jun 1, 2021 21:03:25 GMT -6
Can you explain a bit more what you did there? My plot wraps around a spot that is full of trees. I never blasted it out of there because there were too many trees. As I blasted other spots around it, I decided to keep it and cut and fold in all the ash, aspen, tag alder, maple, willow, and any huge balsams and black spruce. I kept the dogwood, virburnum, hazel, birch, oak, basswood, and small balsams and black spruce. All the trash is still in there and piled as high as I could get it. It's of course starting to settle, but it seems the regen is taking over as quickly as the pile settles. So the sunlight has been hitting the beneficials for the past couple springs now, and it's really starting to bush out and thicken back up. I get lots of grouse around this spot, and I suspect it's a combo of the improved cover, the clover, and the improved mast around this spot. I'll throw up tomorrow's pics in just a minute here... OK.....I'm WAITING!  . |
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 1, 2021 21:07:19 GMT -6
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 1, 2021 21:11:11 GMT -6
My plot wraps around a spot that is full of trees. I never blasted it out of there because there were too many trees. As I blasted other spots around it, I decided to keep it and cut and fold in all the ash, aspen, tag alder, maple, willow, and any huge balsams and black spruce. I kept the dogwood, virburnum, hazel, birch, oak, basswood, and small balsams and black spruce. All the trash is still in there and piled as high as I could get it. It's of course starting to settle, but it seems the regen is taking over as quickly as the pile settles. So the sunlight has been hitting the beneficials for the past couple springs now, and it's really starting to bush out and thicken back up. I get lots of grouse around this spot, and I suspect it's a combo of the improved cover, the clover, and the improved mast around this spot. I'll throw up tomorrow's pics in just a minute here... OK.....I'm WAITING! . Keep yer pants on. I gotta type up the story. I can't just fling my expert quality photos out there without the back story. |
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 2, 2021 7:09:52 GMT -6
You have quite a variety of trees in that area!
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 2, 2021 8:37:35 GMT -6
You have quite a variety of trees in that area! That's my preferred method of habitat management. God does the purchasing, site matching, digging, planting, watering, and fertilizing. I just add the sun and breathing room, and sometimes a cage. |
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Post by honker on Jun 2, 2021 9:37:17 GMT -6
You have quite a variety of trees in that area! That's my preferred method of habitat management. God does the purchasing, site matching, digging, planting, watering, and fertilizing. I just add the sun and breathing room, and sometimes a cage. Are you doing anything special to get the spruce regen going? I have limited spruce on my place, but I see very little regen around the few bigger spruce I do have. Pines seem to kick out a lot little ones. I was actually reading up on native reseeding from harvesting cones might give that a try instead or in addition to the plugs. |
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 2, 2021 10:29:40 GMT -6
That's my preferred method of habitat management. God does the purchasing, site matching, digging, planting, watering, and fertilizing. I just add the sun and breathing room, and sometimes a cage. Are you doing anything special to get the spruce regen going? I have limited spruce on my place, but I see very little regen around the few bigger spruce I do have. Pines seem to kick out a lot little ones. I was actually reading up on native reseeding from harvesting cones might give that a try instead or in addition to the plugs. No. I'm fortunate to have good-enough stands of black spruce and balsam fir that I find them randomly spread around. There may even be some whites, but I'm not sure I could tell the difference. Most of my stuff is a touch above standing water, so that keeps me firmly in the wetland conifer column. I just go find them and start dropping the dominant stuff blocking out the sun. There are lots that don't respond. There are thousands of balsams that are only 3" tall, and they never seem to reach up and get going. All the growth I see is on trees that are already 12" or better. Maybe those little ones will come some day? |
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