Do you plant trees?

[Bill Guenthner]

Good article, but invasives and introduced insects are throwing the forests out of balance.

I am planting some common area trees to replace all the dead ash from EAB. The new ash coming up will not survive and repopulate with EAB still in the area.

Wish I could save some Ash seed for 20 years down the road when maybe they will have a chance. But we won't be a predominately ash forest again, maybe ever.

Ash trees are pretty much wiped out in KY. I have dozens of dead ash trees. Now the White Oaks are under threat from a fungal disease. I have an enourmous old white oak that isn’t leafing out this year. There may come a day when hardwood trees are rare.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

That's a landowner's choice...

It shouldn’t be, anymore than it would be a landowner’s choice to cull deer out of season or take more than the bag limit. Just because trees can’t move between properties doesn’t make them any less of a natural resource.

 

[ericm979]

If you clear cut a big area, natural regeneration may not get you the forest you want. In a lot of areas out west you will get brush first. Left alone for a century or two, natural succession will turn it into forest but most people can't wait that long.

The front part of my property was pasture in the 1940 air photos we have found. You can tell they stopped grazing it in the '50s or so because the brush starts moving in. It's super thick brush now, except the parts I have cleared, with forest invading around the edges.

 

[Jstpssng]

If you clear cut a big area, natural regeneration may not get you the forest you want. In a lot of areas out west you will get brush first. Left alone for a century or two, natural succession will turn it into forest but most people can't wait that long.

The front part of my property was pasture in the 1940 air photos we have found. You can tell they stopped grazing it in the '50s or so because the brush starts moving in. It's super thick brush now, except the parts I have cleared, with forest invading around the edges.

That's why the purpose of the article in my link was to explain why we don't plant many trees in this part of the country... too many people think that because it's done out there, that's the way that it should be everywhere.
We have laws restricting true clearcuts anyways... we have to file anything over 5 acres with the state. Anything over 20 acres needs a written plan. After 5 years they need to have adequate regeneration.

 

[m7040]

We planted about 5000 trees mostly oaks, walnuts and locust funded by a state program to easy water run off and clean up the streams.

 

[Thomas]

Oaks and maples grown very but apple trees whole another story here.

 

[MossRoad]

It shouldn’t be, anymore than it would be a landowner’s choice to cull deer out of season or take more than the bag limit. Just because trees can’t move between properties doesn’t make them any less of a natural resource.

Deer are owned by the state. Trees are owned by the property owner. If you're suggesting that trees on private property should be owned by the state, yikes! You're gonna get roasted.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Deer are owned by the state. Trees are owned by the property owner. If you're suggesting that trees on private property should be owned by the state, yikes! You're gonna get roasted.

I’m saying that logging on private land should be regulated to keep it sustainable. Trees are a crop. Lots of crops have their production limited. I was talking to a logger who bemoaned the fact that his children probably won’t be able to make a living as loggers in this county. This same logger removes every tree that’s big enough to get a board out of and the trees he doesn’t cut he damages to the point that they die in a few years.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

my property, my trees. I just cut (guessing) 700 maple saplings. Nature will do its own thing...

 

[71bronco]

Yeah the state does a great job of regulating everything. Just like out west where you're not allowed to even cut up dead stuff and they have wildfires, burning thousands of acres. I'll take care of own thanks.

Jeff