How to Create an Oak Savanna - Phase 1
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This week on Whitetail Woods 365 we are looking at the progress on our oak savanna project. This project will be ongoing over the next few years, so check in on the progress. This episode should give you a good idea of how to get started on your own oak savanna project!
Can you please make an update to this video? I am very interested to see how it turned out by 2018. Thanks.
Great videos... Please google Middle Rock Conservation Partners MRCP. They are in the beginning stages of an Oak Savanna restoration. I'm blessed to live next door and in the Savanna. Being retired I hope to volunteer big time. Big thanks to all you people who give your time and love. God bless you!
Nice. I’m trying to do the same
Me too, just don't have the smack to hire track excavators and bull dozers. So chainsaw and skid steer will have to do. Will just take a bit longer.
please make an update video! I would love to see how the site is progressing:)
I'm doing my own oak savanna restoration/creation, but am using the 'hack & squirt' method to kill back the trees coupled with chemical removal of the understory. I just subscribed, and look forward to updates. There is very little on UA-cam on this subject ☹️
We need an update!
What invasives are you fighting?
Fortunately not a ton of invasives so far. Buckthorn was probably the biggest one and we had good success getting it out of the area. We have also since planted native grasses and burn it every couple years to cut down on the invaders. I need to do an update video sometime. It turned out so awesome!
OOps, they just killed all the oaks by crushing the roots with heavy equipment. Using heavy equipment around trees crushes the trees' roots and breaks off the roots on each side of the ruts made by the equipment. The soil compresses but the roots simply snap or splinter on each side of the rut. Even if smaller equipment like a skidsteer is used the soil compression can be enough to squeeze out all the air pockets in the soil and suffocate the tree roots or create an anaerobic toxic condition which kills the tree. I would have used a bunch of goats or cattle to defoliate the underbrush and repeated the process at least two more times to exhaust the food stores in the roots of the underbrush. That would kill most of the underbrush without chemicals or heavy equipment. Once the underbrush was defoliated and terminated by the goats it could be easily cut and laid over on its side with a relatively low labor expense.. A prescribed fire could be used to clean up the laid over brush. This video is by Idiots who have no business doing anything in a forest.
-written by a retired ISA Arborist
john smith You're very right. Unfortunately we did not have access to the more lightweight options. The DNR recommended this method with the hopes that the tracks spread out the weight of the equipment. We are almost one year into the project and fortunately no dead trees yet. Hopefully it stays that way. I will make some updated videos in the future and that would be a good topic for one of the videos.
Ground pressure of those big tracks is pretty light.
I hate to think what the fellerbuncher my logger is bringing in weighs, but we have 10+ inches of frost so it doesn't matter in the slightest outside of areas with active water flow.
It's too bad you couldn't have added your project onto a neighbor's timber sale and gotten paid instead of having to pay to remove the wood.