Re: Eucalypts

 

"William A. Grant" wrote:

Recently there have been attempts to use the wood for making paper. If that is true, would someone like to come here and buy mine? 
About 10 years ago, Simpson Paper did plant approximately 5000 acres of E. camaldulensis and E. viminalis in some large plantatations in the low hills between Red Bluff and Corning in the Sacramento Valley (aka the Corning Alps). All watered by miles of drip tubes.  They were to provide chips for their pulp mill in Anderson.  They have since sold the pulp and paper mill there. (Simpson Paper has (or had) similar plantations associated with their paper business in Chile.)

So far, none have volunteered in the surrounding area outside of the irrigated zone.  Kind of disconcerting though, to come upon a dense, dark, regimented plantation like that in the middle of mima mound grassland.  Simpson did  run into some trouble for erasing some vernal pools  in the creation of their 'industrial forest'.

An associated question for the Southern Californians:  Do you see much evidence or damage from the newly introduced Eucalyptus insects?  I think there are at least two of them now, maybe more.

Gary   Matson,  Far  Northern California (Sunset zone 9-barely (and still  getting frost at night!))

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