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Re: Thank you

Wrap hardware cloth( heavy screen, half inch mesh should do) around the
trees you want to save.
Ed Cook

>Thank you all for the wonderful information and  insight about the
>goldenrod popping up all over our property.  I think I will, for the most
>part, just leave it.  However, there are areas where it is competing with
>forb communities.  There I think I will very carefully use roundup on it.
>I am also going to be sure it is out of the area when I plant a new bunch
>of forbs.  I too, have had no luck in broadcasting seeds and getting them
>established.  I wasted a lot of $$ and energy.  I also wish I had known to
>start with a lot more forbs, not just grass seed in the original planting.
>
>I currently have a Beaver changing our prairie(I use that term very loosely
>here) .  Our prairie floods each year(sometimes several times) and each
>time the river follows the same path .  Along this path the priarie grasses
>were slow to establish. So the tress  moved right in.  Lots of them.  I was
>told  to let the tress go along this flood path....they will help erosion.
>Well, now the tress are bigger and I have noticed that the switch grass and
>big bluestam are appearing amongst the trees.  I was really wishing we
>hadn't let the tress in along the flood path and I was plotting how to get
>rid of them.  Well, this fall a beaver came along and that beaver has been
>busy.  I cannot believe the number of tress they(I am assuming it is a
>pair) have cut down nor the distance that they have dragged them to the
>river! All was great for awhile but now I have noticed with the dwindling
>population of saplings that the beavers  are ringing some of the larger
>trees right along the river.  This is NOT A GOOD THING. Am pondering the
>fate of my one time friends and helpers.
>
>Joan
>
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