Thanks for the feedback Ed and Dale. I was out on the main island last Wednesday and had a tough time navigating the thickets of multiflora rose in places.
I went back out on Saturday and brought a machete. Spent a lot of time cleaning up the small satellite island to the immediate north of Thompson's. The Japanese knotweed was extremely thick (and tall) in places there, but the machete was effective on it. Did not run into a lot of knotweed on the main island for some reason. Machete was less effective on the multiflora rose stems. Needs sharpening! Kirk From: Dale Luthringer <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:18:15 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: intresting sycamore on Thompson's wilderness island (ANF) Cool sycamore, Kirk! Also, thanks for making the effort to clean this island up. How was the "snotweed" forest doing? ~How tall was the canopy? I thought I saw just about every tree on that island, but this one certainly doesn't ring a bell... Ed? Dale On 9/23/09, Kirk Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: Last week I was out on Thompson's Wilderness Island participating in an Allegheny River clean-up (for more information about the event see http://www.alleghenyrivercleanup.com ). I know Ed and Dale and those guys have been out on the wilderness islands and provided trip reports in the past, but I can't remember if this particular tree was noted or not. Large otherwise healthy sycamore about midway down the island toward the eastern shore, but take a look at the base of the trunk. Kind of neat I thought. (Sorry no measurements of any kind I was in the middle of picking up garbage!) Kirk Johnson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
