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Originally Posted by Descant
I refer you to your post under "Lake Levels" where you complain about losing trees. Trees have a life expectancy whether in the woods or on the shore. When they drop seeds, the forest is sustainable. When you maintain a close in landscape, the seeds and saplings fail.Perhaps planting some trees of different species would help?
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Hemlock drop seeds from cones, but mature Hemlocks shade them out.
The trees
I'm losing into the lake are over 100 years old--and they're not dying of old age! Where a Hemlock is getting into trouble, I'll plant a White Pine, for its shoreline-holding needle power. (The first to appear after woodlands wildfires,
and before the first plow turned NH soil).
They're also the trees DES wouldn't allow let me to cut down (without paying a four-figure penalty).
Broadleaf trees are supposed to supplant every softwood. My guess is that broadleaf trees are harming the lake. (But benefit tiny benthic critters).
As for "decimated", the word doesn't mean "wiped-out", but "thinned"--at least for now...
