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Post by smallchunk on Jul 9, 2018 20:16:54 GMT -6
That looks like a pond we would find out in the Dakotas, it looks awesome!! How mucky is the bottom composition? Very little muck in the open area and it should stay easy to walk across. Those are far and few between in our area, what a great addition! There are a dozen or more spots in my head that could use these in our area that farmers continue to farm or get hay from. Every year it drowns out or they park a rig there. I wish more would do this!
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 9, 2018 20:48:53 GMT -6
Are you allowed to plant any trees/shrubs on the edge of it like black spruce, tamarack, or dogwoods?
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 9, 2018 21:32:21 GMT -6
I had a similar agreement for ten years. That passed almost fifteen years ago and now I have tag alders, spruce , and crab apple trees on three sides of the area. I would love to see a picture of it Art if you had time to post one. Your habitat work always gives me some good motivation for the future possibilities Stop for a visit some day in winter or spring. I had to maintain in it grass for a ten year period and did burn it twice in that period. Then I began to plant the spruce around it. And a cluster of apples along one side. Some places I planted the spruce along the edge of the wet ground, other places I left a gap between the edge of the swamp and the spruce and that area filled in with tag alders. I like scattered spruce in the tags for bedding.
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Post by biglakebass on Jul 9, 2018 21:35:02 GMT -6
Art, I drove by your place on Sunday on the way back from OTC...... Gotta love the stoplight in Royalton screwing up the traffic for a couple miles....... i have my super secret back route that goes right by your place to Buckman. Take 25 south and zero stoppage.......
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Post by Freeborn on Jul 9, 2018 21:35:38 GMT -6
Looks great honker. Some wetland prairie grass flowers would look nice in your buffer areas.
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Post by honker on Jul 9, 2018 22:11:28 GMT -6
Are you allowed to plant any trees/shrubs on the edge of it like black spruce, tamarack, or dogwoods? No trees in the buffer zone, but willows or other wetland shrubs are ok.
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Post by honker on Jul 9, 2018 22:12:32 GMT -6
Looks great honker. Some wetland prairie grass flowers would look nice in your buffer areas. agreed! I need to try and kill of the reed canary first, but that is the plan.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 8:00:19 GMT -6
Art, I drove by your place on Sunday on the way back from OTC...... Gotta love the stoplight in Royalton screwing up the traffic for a couple miles....... i have my super secret back route that goes right by your place to Buckman. Take 25 south and zero stoppage....... I almost never drive through that town.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 8:03:59 GMT -6
Looks great honker. Some wetland prairie grass flowers would look nice in your buffer areas. agreed! I need to try and kill of the reed canary first, but that is the plan. That reed canary is almost impossible to get rid of. If you have seasonal flooding, it will bring seeds down from up stream. One area of my land tends to be headwaters where I have less spring flooding and more native wetland plants including some native phragmites. Reed canary does hold the soil well with seasonal flooding. How long is your agreement for and then you can start planting trees?
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 11:27:37 GMT -6
I had a similar agreement for ten years. That passed almost fifteen years ago and now I have tag alders, spruce , and crab apple trees on three sides of the area. I would love to see a picture of it Art if you had time to post one. Your habitat work always gives me some good motivation for the future possibilities Not much to see, but here goes. Spruce were planted along the field edge. Inside of that tag alders and willows group. This is the area with some native wetland plants.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 11:31:34 GMT -6
Cat tails have taken over much of the open water area, but pheasants winter in them unless the snow gets very deep. There are two dykes as you go downstream. Trees are growing on this dyke. Dyke is to the right.
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 11:35:15 GMT -6
I have thought of dropping the trees on the dyke to limit places for hawks and owls to prey on pheasants, however Deer cross on the dyke and occasionally bed under a tree on either end. Note the signs of crossing on the dyke.
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Post by benmnwi on Jul 10, 2018 11:45:40 GMT -6
Art - That looks like some awesome habitat. Did your ponds fill in over time or are they the same depth as when they were originally built? Is there enough water there for waterfowl to use those ponds?
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 10, 2018 18:59:47 GMT -6
Art - That looks like some awesome habitat. Did your ponds fill in over time or are they the same depth as when they were originally built? Is there enough water there for waterfowl to use those ponds? They never were very deep and have been pretty much taken over by cattails. I might get some geese nesting on a muskrat house out there. Sandhills hang around and probably nest.
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Post by smallchunk on Jul 12, 2018 22:20:40 GMT -6
I'm interested to hear how your dike help up with all the rain!
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