So what has everybody planned this year in the way of permanent plantings? I' ve got 500 white pines, 400 white spruce and 100 white oak seedlings purchased for the spring. I' m going to direct plant about 5 lb. of hybrid chestnuts and it' ll be interesting to see how the apples and pears faired through the -30 F. weather that my property has been getting. I' ll just put in more of whatever makes it through the winter.

I may sound like a far off in time thing, but I want to try to create a more sheltered area that will hold the deer longer in the fall and maybe even get them to yard over winter on the property. We also got a new pest coming into the province, an Ash bettle. They' re supposed to destroy ash forests and if that happens I need new growth of other species coming along.

Dan O.