07-06-2011, 03:57 AM
The day we moved into our house, the people from Oahu who own the lot next to ours showed up, they hadn't seen it in 15 years and were shocked to discover that their grassy distant ocean view lot was now a dense jungle of towering albezia, thick guava, and trash trees. The parts that had been left alone are still medium sized ohia, the rest is impenetrable.
Disturb as little of what is already there as possible until you are ready to develop your lot, and then disturb it as you go. That will minimize the invasion of rapid growing species you don't want, and those plants invade fast. Undisturbed land doesn't change much in terms of vegetation, but once you open it up with a bulldozer all sorts of things move in, including people dumping rubbish and dead cars and dead pigs. We saw it again and again when land shopping. People would buy a lot, bulldoze a drive and clearing and then go back to the mainland, other people would then use the lot as a convenient dump. Some of it was really disgusting.
I've also seen where that kind of access was used to steal trees by cutting all the ohias that could be reached from the neighboring cleared areas, using the house pad to load up trucks. Friends of ours had their lot in HPP completely denuded of large ohia by someone who used the bulldozed perimeter of the neighboring lot to access my friends' trees.
All through HPP there are lots which were bought, ripped and then left when the market took a dive, they are the ones thickly covered with albezia that are all the same age. Please, please, please, anyone who wants to develop an HPP lot by bulldozing corner to corner, buy one of those lots and leave the native ohia forest lots for people who want to do minimal clearing.
Slight detour of thread:
Rob, where do you get your cinder/soil mix?
Carol
Disturb as little of what is already there as possible until you are ready to develop your lot, and then disturb it as you go. That will minimize the invasion of rapid growing species you don't want, and those plants invade fast. Undisturbed land doesn't change much in terms of vegetation, but once you open it up with a bulldozer all sorts of things move in, including people dumping rubbish and dead cars and dead pigs. We saw it again and again when land shopping. People would buy a lot, bulldoze a drive and clearing and then go back to the mainland, other people would then use the lot as a convenient dump. Some of it was really disgusting.
I've also seen where that kind of access was used to steal trees by cutting all the ohias that could be reached from the neighboring cleared areas, using the house pad to load up trucks. Friends of ours had their lot in HPP completely denuded of large ohia by someone who used the bulldozed perimeter of the neighboring lot to access my friends' trees.
All through HPP there are lots which were bought, ripped and then left when the market took a dive, they are the ones thickly covered with albezia that are all the same age. Please, please, please, anyone who wants to develop an HPP lot by bulldozing corner to corner, buy one of those lots and leave the native ohia forest lots for people who want to do minimal clearing.
Slight detour of thread:
Rob, where do you get your cinder/soil mix?
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb