The map above shows the areas that have either been planted with native trees, native grasses or have had some sort of invasive specie control method implemented. The yellow areas are the three prairie restoration plots which will be seeded this fall. Also this winter I will be working my way south into the flooded woods adding more native trees and doing some selective tallow control.
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Planting crew I hired (Templin Forestry) last year to help get a jump start on tree planting. Seen here busting open various bags of native bare root seedlings and mixing them into their carrying sacks. |
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Same crew as above planting the areas around the ponds. |
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Part of the four acre area where I hand cleared the tallows and poisoned all the stumps...There was maybe one native tree to every twenty tallow trees (but I left all natives standing). On the map above this area is outlined in orange on the eastern border of the property. That was two years ago....it is now an impenetrable briar thicket with only the few natives I left behind towering out of the briars....next photo.
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Same area as above two years later....natives are tall , and you can't tell in the photo but there is a good eight foot wall of briars, saltbush, and undergrowth....mean country... but the rabbits like it! Ps..very little tallow re-growth (I used Garlon), but felling the tallow and leaving them on the ground almost guarantees a briar thicket the following year.
Photo below is same area in July 2013...
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Sapling from last year leafing out near pond. |
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Cypress leafing out around rim of pond (I planted 200 cypress around the inside rim of the large pond). One tree every seven feet or so. And so far they all look good ..I don't think one has died (or been eaten yet). |
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Transplanted pickerel weed.. quite a few clumps around the pond, also note the cypress peeking out behind it..one of the 200 around the pond.
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2012
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| Specie | Common | # Planted | | | | |
| | Pecan | 450 | | | | |
| | Cypress | 450 | | | | |
| | Sugarberry | 450 | | | | |
| | Willow Oak | 100 | | | | |
| | Green Ash | 100 | | | | |
| | Cow Oak | 200 | | | | |
| | Laurel Oak | 200 | | | | |
| | Live Oak | 200 | | | | |
| | Nuttall Oak | 200 | | | | |
| | Bitter Pecan | 100 | | | | |
| | Drummond Maple | 200 | | | | |
| | Black Gum | 200 | | | | |
| Total | | 2850 | | | | |
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2013
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| Specie | Common | Planted | | | | Switchgrass(Dpak) |
| | Cypress | 650 | | | | Indian Grass(Dpak) |
| | Southern Catalpa | 50 | | | | Eastern Gammagrass (Caddo)(Dpak) |
| | Crabapple | 50 | | | | Common Sunflower(1/4 lb) |
| | American Beach | 50 | | | | Button Bush(Dpak) |
| | Red Maple | 50 | | | | Browntop Millet (50lbs) |
| | Red Mulberry | 50 | | | | Standing Cypress(Dpak) |
| | Chinese Chestnut | 25 | | | | Rice (50 lbs) |
| | Eastern Red Cedar | 50 | | | | |
| | Sycamore | 30 | | | | |
| | Nuttal Oak | 50 | | | | |
| | Cow Oak | 50 | | | | |
| | Water Oak | 100 | | | | |
| | Shumard Oak | 25 | | | | |
| | Willow Oak | 100 | | | | |
| | American Elm | 20 | | | | |
| | Water Tupelo | 100 | | | | |
| | Green Ash | 40 | | | | |
| | Button Bush | 200 | | | | |
| Total | | 1690 | | | | |
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