My once ash dominated 2.5 acre woodlot is now getting more sunlight and small white oaks have been coming up. The ash borers are doing what fire used to do. I have a single 175 year old white oak giant in the middle and have never seen seedlings until the last couple of years. I have been trying to do what I can to help them compete against the walnut, hickory and maple dominating trees.
Oak trees handle large storms so much better they will continue on. Their compartmentalization is better as well. So even if the maples in the understory take off after the death of a large oak they will inevitably break losing limbs breaking tops while oak Surviving those large storms will dominate the top where winds are highest.
maine here. i use wood piles. which squirrels use and every one has an oak sapling growing from it. the wood also protects it from deer. it works. i have a ton of oaks this year from this method. let the animals do the work gathering and planting the acorns. just a 4x4 wood pile or more works. every single pile i have done this works in my area. deer will walk on apples for acorns so you gotta give the tree a bit of protection at first. and then either fight the squirrel army or let them plant them for you while they store them for winter.
Many things are nutritious, but if you are not close starving to death, you want something that taste good also. And it is completely ok that your food is not the worlds most nutritious food.
It's deceptive carroty aroma definitely raises a concern...A call for RED flags 🚩. for me that is. Has a dangerous downside as it's effects leads to death... Anything good bout this toxic plant really 😱🥵🤔🤗
All the trees are in trouble. Most been all the loss of large developments and industrial development. We have leave more and larger tracks of land alone for wildlife. And by doing so help with global warming and reducing carbon emissions
I think it would be awesome if you made a video about the mulberry trees that grow and Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. I'm new to the country life style and just realized that I have a mulberry tree in my backyard by the pond that I never knew we even had in this area. I hear there are some sort of superfood or high in nutrients but you're very skilled in talking about these things and think it would be awesome if you made a video
Huh, I had no idea. My local forest in southern Norway _used to_ be an old oak forest, until the Dutch came in the 1500s and chopped it all down to build Amsterdam. The forest is now mesophytic, there's only a few oak trees here and there. But, something is happening, a lot of oak seedlings have sprung up these last years! I may be responsible for _some_ of them, as I collect acorns in my pocket and throw them around wherever I go in the forest. But most of it is probably the work of squirrels (which we call "ekorn", literally "oak squirrel"). A gradually warmer climate is also helping, so they seem to be coming into a renaissance. I even planted an acorn outside my house, which is now a ~5 years old little stout oak tree. My hope is that it will remain long after I'm gone. This year I even propagated some in plastic cups, and about 3/4 are doing well, ready to be transplanted.
I never saw any poison sumac until last summer (2023). We live in Memphis, Tennessee, where hard winter freezes used to be short & infrequent. They’re becoming more regular and lasting longer. Apparently, early 2023’s hard freeze brought us poison sumac. When I was a kid in scouts, we never so much as mentioned poison sumac. I know how to identify poison oak & poison ivy, but no one has ever heard of poison sumac. Now I’m overrun with it. I’ve watched all stages of its development. Last summer, I didn’t know what it was and tried to hang a wind chime to it! Ye godz, the blisters I got! There are several rather large sumac trees along one side of our house. I haven’t seen them bloom, and they’ve obviously been there for some time. My hope is that they are not poisonous. But the monsters in our backyard, which is close to a paved bayou (it rarely has more than a trickle in it) bear the gray seeds. I’m looking at the big clusters of greenish-white flowers right now. And poison ivy? Never had so much of it since after the 2023 freeze. If I could attach a photo of the small area of rash I got on the back of my left wrist last summer, you’d drop your teeth! This is a health hazard. How do we kill it?
ive been touching this alot and this never hurt me, it exactly same as one in vid, is this like a situation where im immune naturally or is it some other similar plant
Just more proof the Americans tax payers are weak spineless gutless cowards, the allow the government actors" p3dofiles) / thugs) to sell them something they don't own! Like fishing license and deer tags! So over populated deer ! Keep paying taxes and calling them heros! # poverty for all Americans tax paying citizens!
The American Beech can be removed from that list. American Beech wil be wiped out inside of 10 years. I am losing 100% of my American Beech within two to three years due to American Beech leaf disease. I have 100% infection over the last 2 years of over 200 trees.This includes my 70 foot mature trees to my saplings. As far as Oaks, currently about 90% of my Oaks here in Upstate NY are stripped of all leaves due to the 2024 surge in gypsy caterpilliars.
I'm in SW Pennsylvania and I've never seen this tree that I know of. I spent a lot of time in the woods as a kid. I am only familiar with tulip trees. Now I've got to find one of these.
There needs to be more intervention by man. This would manage forests by planting trees in unforested areas and then when the forested areas burn, or are harvested, they can be replanted by man. Then the invasive species can be thinned out. Fire alone is the lazy man's answer. This is a problem created by people who study things, and worry about those things, but never come up with ways man can intervene to make thriving eco systems.
From what I looked up, these guys are relatives of sea monkeys (definitely a resemblance, especially the very hardy eggs) which would apparently make them closer relatives of the flies and other insects buzzing around the forest than the actual shrimp of the ocean. I guess when you think of it that way it isn't that farfetched to find them in the forest. In any case, pretty cool!
Well, if gmo trees that don’t drop seeds or bear fruit weren’t sold by the boatload by every nursery from here to Tim-buk-tu, maybe we would have a better handle on a situation like this. Or how about when they clear forests for lumber and all that grows in its place is tag alder and other wild shrubs. They don’t leave a thing. What little trees remain are choked out by fast growing brush. People suck.
I have been planting allot of black walnut the last several years in the hopes that my son will profit in his older years .Do u think i should go a different route?
Thanks for watching. Yes, the emerald ash borer has been in western PA for over a decade. Most mature ashes are dead, but the younger trees are doing okay.
Luckily where I live in rural Mexico, I have been thinning the pines and the large oaks are surrounded by young oaks which are growing faster now that they have space.
We've already ruined it enough. I'm not sure us messling with it will turn out good....I'm sure fires will pick up in a few years as temperatures rise....
Where I live in the South, controlled burns are still a common occurrence in wooded areas. It does wonders to reduce the wildfire hazards and keep the land healthy. In contrast, when I visited Washington State in an area north of Mt Rainier, I was appalled at the lack of controlled burning. The ground was thick with evergreen needles, branches, and dry dead wood. The slightest spark would have turned the hillsides into a rapidly-spreading INTENSE inferno. From what I've heard, they have the same lack of controlled burns in California and Australia. They're really not doing themselves any favors...
