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I guess we did highjack your thread. I'm planting a single row of eastern red cedar for my road screen, mostly because they are free. I don't have a huge road hunting problem so I want them spaced far apart so the bottoms limbs don't die. This won't result in a quick road screen. I would think...

Waiting to see what happens with the seedbank will be a lot faster than any benefit you are going to see with a tree planting. Cedar trees will grow 6 foot limbs, therefore at your spacing, 7 foot with 10 foot rows, you will have a biological desert in the future, as the limbs will overlap and...

I have to agree with Tmayer13. 600 cedars an acre, or any tree for that matter, seems counterproductive. If you don't have any forested areas I could understand a tree planting, however, if you do, I would take an old field management approach to the pasture. Remove the cool season grasses and...

They're definitely pin oaks. I'm in southern Hancock County near West Point blacktop. I'm almost overrun with Pin Oaks. I have some shingle oaks as well. Maybe I should consider myself lucky.

Lot of bottomland for sure. I’m only cutting down the Pin Oaks to release White, Bur, and Swamp. Plan is to plant Swamp Whites and persimmon in bottomland sites. White, Bur, Post, and Chinkapin on upland sites.

I just finished reading all of the TSI thread in Dbltree's Corner. Great stuff and very informative. There was a lot of discussion of black oak and eliminating it in many situations, however I could not find a reference to Pin Oak. My place in west central Illinois is chock full of it. It grows...