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Anybody ever kill mature switchgrass with cleth? I've got trees and shrubs in switch and the switch is getting way too thick for my liking. I don't want to kill the woody stuff - just the switch. Any experience here?

A few years back I started noticing dying oak trees on one ridge. 5 or 6 shingle and black oaks had died in a group. I watched the next couple years and saw that it was spreading to other close oaks in all directions. Two years ago I had a private forester come out to renew my forest management...

A few years back I started noticing dying oak trees on one ridge. 5 or 6 shingle and black oaks had died in a group. I watched the next couple years and saw that it was spreading g to other close oaks in all directions. Two years ago I had a private forester come out to renew my forest...

I have some spots in the timber where I have smaller halfway decent swamp white oak growing all around large cedars. I have been doing lots of tsi this winter and finally got to this particular area. I dropped what I could but there were a few cedars that I ringed instead of dropping due to me...

I am taking 15 acres of field out of production to play with in 2021. I already started planting trees and direct seeding acorns earlier this fall after the beans were removed. I want to put some clover plots in here and there and a few pockets of switch grass. I will do more tree/shrub...

I have always killed big honey locust and hedge by girdling and using tordon. It is brutal work on nasty trees that are often copiced bad and in nasty tangles. I have had decent success with tordon but have had to deal with some resprouting. Biggest issue for me is the difficulty with girdling...

So I have about 20 acres of tillable that I am planning to pull out of production after the 2020 growing season. I want a tree/shrub planting over about 10 or so acres, will leave a few acres along timber edges to naturally go to brush, and will keep 3 to 4 acres for food plots. About 5 acres...