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Finally, trees hitting the ground
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 1966618" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Actually, Arsenal does just the opposite. It kills hardwoods but promotes natural food sources such as weeds, legumes, blackberries, etc.</p><p></p><p>The one downside to using purely natural hardwood regeneration for food and cover production is that hardwood saplings quickly grow so tall that they block sunlight from the ground and reduce early succession food production (weeds, legumes, etc.). This will occur in only 3-5 years after timber removal, depending on sun aspect and soil moisture. Now this does convert the area to good cover habitat quickly, but the food production value is lost. By spraying some of the sapling regeneration with Arsenal you kill back the hardwoods and allow food production to continue for several more years. And by spraying in patches you will also increase habitat diversity (break the area up into lots of little patches of different types of habitat). My research on the value of habitat diversity to the hunter strongly suggests that high habitat diversity values equates to higher deer sightings by hunters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 1966618, member: 17"] Actually, Arsenal does just the opposite. It kills hardwoods but promotes natural food sources such as weeds, legumes, blackberries, etc. The one downside to using purely natural hardwood regeneration for food and cover production is that hardwood saplings quickly grow so tall that they block sunlight from the ground and reduce early succession food production (weeds, legumes, etc.). This will occur in only 3-5 years after timber removal, depending on sun aspect and soil moisture. Now this does convert the area to good cover habitat quickly, but the food production value is lost. By spraying some of the sapling regeneration with Arsenal you kill back the hardwoods and allow food production to continue for several more years. And by spraying in patches you will also increase habitat diversity (break the area up into lots of little patches of different types of habitat). My research on the value of habitat diversity to the hunter strongly suggests that high habitat diversity values equates to higher deer sightings by hunters. [/QUOTE]
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