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Crop Tree Release with Hack and Squirt

Crop Tree Release with Hack and Squirt

When I started my ten year plan to return my forest back to a woodland savanna, I was intending to go the traditional route to get there. The traditional route circa 2021 would have been to hire a forestry consultant who would come evaluate my land. This person would write a management plant to show the direction I wanted to go and the steps to get me there. In my case, with a high basal area, suppressed oak pine forest,…

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Learning How to Calibrate a Boomless ATV Sprayer

Learning How to Calibrate a Boomless ATV Sprayer

My house sits in the corner of a fescue/bermuda pasture. It has provided a nice view for many years. And it has required three mowings each summer to maintain it. So last fall, I decided I wanted to convert about an acre of it back to Longleaf Savanna. But converting pasturelands back to woodlands is more difficult than one might imagine. Pasture grasses are tenacious and require a lot of encouragement to get them to relinquish their territory back to…

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