05-30-2013, 04:06 AM
This has all been covered before. There are certain catch phrases that are repeated by the likes of Syd "Bras cause breast cancer" Singer and his ilk that have been thoroughly discredited. The possibility of forests of crippled trees is one of them. It is a pure scare tactic. There won't be huge swaths of dead or visibly distorted trees. I only wish there were. If the trees on my property do show signs of infestation that is casually visible I will consider that a perk, extra value, but based on everything I have read I am unlikely to be so gratuitously rewarded.
Bulldozers will not be useful on the tops of remote mountain ridges. The guava is a biological bulldozer that does not discriminate. If you try to clear a property with a bulldozer you will essentially strip it.
This is all so easy to talk about but in practice the stuff is tenacious. I tried removing a guava tree with a come-along. I had the stump out of the ground, pulling on it with the come-along and prying up on the last couple of roots when I noticed a tree 10 feet away shaking. That one tree was connected to other trees. It forms a horrible invasive mat. The only way to control the guava without literally killing everything on the lot is to pursue a never-ending campaign of hand clearing small areas or enlisting the help of this bio-control.
Essentially you are talking about getting people with nothing better to do to work like dogs for free while skillfully steering bulldozers around the few remaining native plants. This falls under the category of " Gee, the world would be a completely different place if only it were a completely different place".
Bulldozers will not be useful on the tops of remote mountain ridges. The guava is a biological bulldozer that does not discriminate. If you try to clear a property with a bulldozer you will essentially strip it.
This is all so easy to talk about but in practice the stuff is tenacious. I tried removing a guava tree with a come-along. I had the stump out of the ground, pulling on it with the come-along and prying up on the last couple of roots when I noticed a tree 10 feet away shaking. That one tree was connected to other trees. It forms a horrible invasive mat. The only way to control the guava without literally killing everything on the lot is to pursue a never-ending campaign of hand clearing small areas or enlisting the help of this bio-control.
Essentially you are talking about getting people with nothing better to do to work like dogs for free while skillfully steering bulldozers around the few remaining native plants. This falls under the category of " Gee, the world would be a completely different place if only it were a completely different place".