The Solution To Poor Regeneration
03-23-2009 | 09:05 AM
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RE: The Solution To Poor Regeneration
ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
The tried cutting the stumps high (two to three feet above ground) on the game lands up here and it didn’t work, the deer still eat the stump spouts all off every year until the stump died.
Then they tried to cut part way through the tree and bend the saplings over, like a hinge, thinking they could grow a horizontal forest, but that didn’t work either. The deer just ate everything off that was within their reach until the tree either sent up a shout that turned into a new trunk, out of their reach, or the whole tree died.
Then they tried bulldozing the trees over so the root ball was still attached to the tree, as they still tried to grow a horizontal forest. That didn’t work either for the same reasons the cut and bend method didn’t work.
R.S. Bodenhorn
The tried cutting the stumps high (two to three feet above ground) on the game lands up here and it didn’t work, the deer still eat the stump spouts all off every year until the stump died.
Then they tried to cut part way through the tree and bend the saplings over, like a hinge, thinking they could grow a horizontal forest, but that didn’t work either. The deer just ate everything off that was within their reach until the tree either sent up a shout that turned into a new trunk, out of their reach, or the whole tree died.
Then they tried bulldozing the trees over so the root ball was still attached to the tree, as they still tried to grow a horizontal forest. That didn’t work either for the same reasons the cut and bend method didn’t work.
R.S. Bodenhorn
03-23-2009 | 09:18 AM
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RE: The Solution To Poor Regeneration
ORIGINAL: scorp
Maybe the deer are really grazers and not browsers as many might think? Maybe they just browse till they find their favorite candy then turn into grazers till it's gone?
ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
The tried cutting the stumps high (two to three feet above ground) on the game lands up here and it didn’t work, the deer still eat the stump spouts all off every year until the stump died.
Then they tried to cut part way through the tree and bend the saplings over, like a hinge, thinking they could grow a horizontal forest, but that didn’t work either. The deer just ate everything off that was within their reach until the tree either sent up a shout that turned into a new trunk, out of their reach, or the whole tree died.
Then they tried bulldozing the trees over so the root ball was still attached to the tree, as they still tried to grow a horizontal forest. That didn’t work either for the same reasons the cut and bend method didn’t work.
R.S. Bodenhorn
The tried cutting the stumps high (two to three feet above ground) on the game lands up here and it didn’t work, the deer still eat the stump spouts all off every year until the stump died.
Then they tried to cut part way through the tree and bend the saplings over, like a hinge, thinking they could grow a horizontal forest, but that didn’t work either. The deer just ate everything off that was within their reach until the tree either sent up a shout that turned into a new trunk, out of their reach, or the whole tree died.
Then they tried bulldozing the trees over so the root ball was still attached to the tree, as they still tried to grow a horizontal forest. That didn’t work either for the same reasons the cut and bend method didn’t work.
R.S. Bodenhorn
03-23-2009 | 01:38 PM
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RE: The Solution To Poor Regeneration
Wrong again sport!
It's been tried, documented, and tried again. Didn't have an effect.
Beside the fact that you have very little clue as to forestry practices, who do you expect will give up all those board feet? How are you going to tell the private owners of the 80% of this state where to cut on their tree?
It's been tried, documented, and tried again. Didn't have an effect.
Beside the fact that you have very little clue as to forestry practices, who do you expect will give up all those board feet? How are you going to tell the private owners of the 80% of this state where to cut on their tree?
Stump sprouts originate from dormant buds at or near the base of stumps of harvested overstory trees.
Then we have this from the same report.
For example, data from a study of black oak and white oak sprouting that included trees ranging from less than 1 in. to more than 12 in. in basal diameter showed that the most rapid height growth occurred in clumps originating from 6-in. stumps (Johnson 1979). Sprouts from stumps larger or smaller than that grew less. The height growth of oak reproduction thus changes continuously, but not unidirectionally, from small advance reproduction to large-diameter overstory trees (see figure). (Johnson, 1993)
The large amount of unexplained variation in the relation between shoot growth and stump diameter also reflects rapidly changing root-shoot relations. Other factors that may be significant sources of variation in the shoot growth of oak sprouts include site quality, genetic variation, competition, parent tree age, and season of cutting. The significance of these factors may vary among oak species and regions (Johnson, 1993).
