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[Gordon Gould]

You VT guys have had long (like years) stretch of terrible flooding storms. Seems like I heard about flooded roads every week this summer.
Iirc your pretty high and dry... hopefully.

Yes, we are lucky to be on higher land at the top of any drainage. Other than having to do way more road grading than usual with a down hill road out and woods to wet to go in we were fine.

gg

 

[goeduck]

That's good You are lucky. It is caused by a bacteria in the soil that enters thru the root system. Probably why infections are localized vs random. It used to be considered a symptom of strong winds but that has been proven to be false.

gg

We have a root rot out here in hemlock and douglas fir. The fungus is passed root to root, not airborne. So city lots just about never have it because the streets separate the root systems, yet the forest areas do. It basically creates meadows in the fir/hemlock until the fungus dies out. The cedars or whatever then often take that spot. It is very slow. The fir/hemlock can actually repopulate, but they only get to about 2 ft diameter, then the die off and the process repeats.

 

[Molalla1]

We have a root rot out here in hemlock and douglas fir. The fungus is passed root to root, not airborne. So city lots just about never have it because the streets separate the root systems, yet the forest areas do. It basically creates meadows in the fir/hemlock until the fungus dies out. The cedars or whatever then often take that spot. It is very slow. The fir/hemlock can actually repopulate, but they only get to about 2 ft diameter, then the die off and the process repeats.

We used to call Hemlock "piss firs" when I was young and full of piss and vinegar.

 

[Gordon Gould]

We used to call Hemlock "piss firs" when I was young and full of piss and vinegar.

We had piss spruce here.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

I'm just starting to get back in the woods after all the wet this summer. The other day I went by this apple tree in a wooded opening and noticed it had the top of a maple blow-down tangled in it's own top.

Looking from the other direction.

The apple tree is a little mangy but it is a wildlife magnet, and I thought I should clean it up a bit. It has had a hard life and I have done this before and have seen it split by heavy snow. It takes a setback then recovers. I used to have a bow stand right there.

I got everything onto the ground and pulled all the limb wood out of the top. (That's my hat hanging on the apple tree.)

I winched everything bigger than 3" or 4" up to trail side and ended up with a small pile of firewood which I will get out of the woods later when it is dryer - hopefully. That's the apple tree in the background.

gg

 

[BackRoad]

Save those apple trees!!! Last year there were none...this year, our 3 biggest ones are just teeming with apples to make up for it - and the deer know it.

Like you said Mr. Gordon, they are deer magnets!

 

[Hoobie]

We had piss spruce here.

gg

Cat spruce or cat piss spruce here.

 

[Jstpssng]

I have a basic wildlife management book and it states "There is no reason to cut an apple tree down. Every kind of wildlife uses it for something".
It doesn't make that statement about anything else, not even beech.

 

[Rustyiron]

Well, it is good smoker wood.

 

[WinterDeere]

Cat spruce or cat piss spruce here.

That's funny, as we have a variety of oak that old timers call "piss oak". I think it's technically swamp oak, but a specific variety that smells less pleasant when cut and split.