Great video, I've got a few sites that require passive management, along with some requiring more active approaches, and with willow and wilding pines on those sites. Some great ideas for 5-10yr management to give the native trees a chance. Problem for us are ungulates, goats and deer. Any thoughts on active and passive management in areas with high deer and goat numbers e.g. what are less palatable first stage succession natives that could be planted at sites where stock, deer and goats are a problem?
Hi Rob, thanks for watching and getting in touch with your question. If you’ve got stock goats and deer in your forest area then that’s going to be really limiting what you can achieve. Not many species will grow in the presence of all of these animals. My advice is to remove stock and goats. Even if you can do this over a smaller area as a starting point. Once you’ve got that sorted manuka and kanuka are good early successional species which are unpalatable. If you’d like more advice please feel free to send me an email, we could even chat over the phone if that helps you progress your forestry. All the best, Adam
Tradescantia fluminensis is a real problem. I would rather have gorse to contend with, it can be shaded out in the end and can act as a nurse just like the willow.
Hi Jenny, thanks for your comment. You are spot on with your thinking regarding the relative threats between wandering dew and gorse. The former is highly shade tolerant meaning it can’t be beaten through competition. Whereas gorse is light demanding plus also relatively short lived so it can be shaded out in locations when natives will readily establish (which isn’t everywhere!).
Great video, I've got a few sites that require passive management, along with some requiring more active approaches, and with willow and wilding pines on those sites. Some great ideas for 5-10yr management to give the native trees a chance. Problem for us are ungulates, goats and deer. Any thoughts on active and passive management in areas with high deer and goat numbers e.g. what are less palatable first stage succession natives that could be planted at sites where stock, deer and goats are a problem?
Hi Rob, thanks for watching and getting in touch with your question.
If you’ve got stock goats and deer in your forest area then that’s going to be really limiting what you can achieve. Not many species will grow in the presence of all of these animals. My advice is to remove stock and goats. Even if you can do this over a smaller area as a starting point.
Once you’ve got that sorted manuka and kanuka are good early successional species which are unpalatable.
If you’d like more advice please feel free to send me an email, we could even chat over the phone if that helps you progress your forestry.
All the best,
Adam
Tradescantia fluminensis is a real problem. I would rather have gorse to contend with, it can be shaded out in the end and can act as a nurse just like the willow.
Hi Jenny, thanks for your comment. You are spot on with your thinking regarding the relative threats between wandering dew and gorse. The former is highly shade tolerant meaning it can’t be beaten through competition. Whereas gorse is light demanding plus also relatively short lived so it can be shaded out in locations when natives will readily establish (which isn’t everywhere!).