04-16-2017, 08:30 AM
keeping the jungle at bay is constant work
Exactly: you have to be here to maintain it. Left alone, it does reach some long-term stable equilibrium, and this usually keeps invasives from taking hold.
Along the back side of Ainaloa is a perfect "cautionary tale": a nice rectangular 7500sf patch of albizia, surrounded on all sides by native jungle -- someone cleared the lot pin-to-pin, then didn't follow through, and it became infested just like any open wound...
(It's been a few years; not sure it's still there...)
Exactly: you have to be here to maintain it. Left alone, it does reach some long-term stable equilibrium, and this usually keeps invasives from taking hold.
Along the back side of Ainaloa is a perfect "cautionary tale": a nice rectangular 7500sf patch of albizia, surrounded on all sides by native jungle -- someone cleared the lot pin-to-pin, then didn't follow through, and it became infested just like any open wound...
(It's been a few years; not sure it's still there...)