This article was aimed at helping you figure out what you want to do with your land, what invasive species you have and how much of them you have.
Heaven, Indiana by Jan Maher
By knowing what you want from your land you can prioritize which invasive species are going to cause you the most trouble and where to start your control efforts. Tree-of-Heaven is a fast growing tree from Asia that vigorously sends up root sprouts forming dense colonies. Tree-of-Heaven has a large, compound leaf that is up to 3 feet long with as many as 30 leaflets, and a distinct glandular notch at the base of the leaflet. The winged seeds are produced in abundance and help the species colonize new areas quickly photo below.
Verticillium albo-atrum, a soil fungus, may prove to be a viable biological control for Tree-of-Heaven. One of the best cultural treatments for Tree-of-Heaven is to control the plant before you disturb the forest canopy or soil. If you are planning to build roads on your property, clear a wildlife food plot, or do any sort of timber stand improvement or timber harvest, control the Tree-of-Heaven first. Tree-of-Heaven grows well on poor soils and capitalizes quickly on canopy gaps in the forest.
Tree-of-Heaven is a serious threat to the long-term productivity of forests in the central hardwood region. There are areas in southern Indiana along the Ohio River where Tree-of-Heaven has completely taken over acres and acres of native forest and formed a monoculture of Tree-of-Heaven.
If you have this species on your property, you need to control it. Integrated Vegetation Management IVM is a system where you use information on the life cycle of the plant pest and knowledge of how it interacts with the environment, combined with the most economical and effective control methods to remove the plant with the least possible hazard to people, property and the environment.
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For most IVM plans there are four approaches: For Tree-of-Heaven we primarily rely on Cultural and Chemical means to control the plant. Mechanical treatment can be used in limited circumstances. Cultural Control of Tree-of-Heaven One of the best cultural treatments for Tree-of-Heaven is to control the plant before you disturb the forest canopy or soil.
By pulling young sprouts or chemically treating this species prior to disturbance, you can drastically reduce the spread of this species following disturbance. After the disturbance follow-up to make sure you have not spread the invasive species. There are several chemical treatments that are effective for controlling Tree-of-Heaven. Whenever using chemicals the landowner or applicator must follow the herbicide label.
The preferred treatment methods are foliar application and basal bark application. Foliar application is most effective after full canopy development to fall color mid-June to mid-September. Unless you are treating right-of-ways, foliar application is typically a low-volume spot treatment on young trees less than head high.
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The herbicide label will provide recommended herbicide rates for low-volume foliar treatment. Basal bark applications typically involve wetting the lower inches of the stem all the way around and down to the root collar. The treatment should not overflow and wet the soil around the stem.
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Basal bark treatments are extremely effective on any size stem and can be done most times of the year with the exception of the spring during heavy sap flow or when there is snow on the ground. Very young seedlings can be pulled out of the soil when soil conditions are suitable. There is the potential for seedlings to re-sprout if they break off at the soil level or if they are established enough to sprout from the roots that are not pulled up. Pulling up seedlings is only recommended when other treatments are not available. It is better to pull up young seedlings than to leave them to grow for another year.
Remember where they were or mark the location on a property map. Follow-up the next season to treat with herbicide or pull any re-sprouts. For any Tree-of-Heaven besides first or second year seedlings, any sort of cutting, mowing or girdling will result in aggressive root sprouts and make the problem worse. Every year you wait is one more year that tree-of-heaven will add new root sprouts, potentially reach seed bearing age 2 — 3 years , and spread vigorously with any natural or man-made disturbance. Treat it as soon as you identify it. Above - Glandular notch, near the base of the leaf, is a distinctive feature to help tell Tree-of-Heaven from Black Walnut or Sumac.
Each compound leaf can have up to 30 leaflets. Printable Issue Fall Conserving the Rare Cerulean Warbler in Indiana. Sierra Club and Audubon say Active Forestry. What is a Shelterwood Harvest? A Foe, Insidious and Merciless is Advancing. Ask the Steward Fall Days Gone By Fall Spring Issue Volume 27, No.
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Printable Issue Spring Presidents Letter Spring Support Forest Owners in the Farm Bill. Days Gone By Spring Winter Issue Volume 26, No. Printable Issue Winter Management of Indiana State Forests. Contribution Agreements — Fight Invasive Plants. Amanda Sarasien's website Reviews, translations, commentary. Meet the Author Jackson Baer's interview with me on his website.
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Heaven, Indiana is out of this world and so much of it. Bly A lush, multilayered portrait of the cycle of life. One hot week in August , in Heaven, Indiana, a baby is delivered twice: The baby, Nadja, becomes part of a long tradition of well-kept secrets in the tiny town of her birth. She grows up traveling with her adoptive grandmother, the fortune. She grows up traveling with her adoptive grandmother, the fortune-teller, learning to develop her own gifts of precognition, reading the remains of lunches and dinners to see what lies ahead in her clients' lives.
Meanwhile, two other girls born in Heaven that same year are growing to maturity. Ellie Denson waits tables at Clara's Kitchen, and searches maps in her spare time, haunted by powerful urges to be Somewhere Else.
Sue Ellen Sue Tipton marries her high school sweetheart and happily takes on the role of the town hairdresser, keeping herself informed on the latest in permanent waves and gossip, some of which revolves around Helen's temporary insanity and Lester's numerous affairs. In spite of the penchant Heaven's denizens have for quietly getting into each other's business, a great many secrets manage to remain hidden, stuffed into apron pockets, tucked into attic trunks, locked into desk drawers.
When Nadja's Granny decides to retire in Heaven, their reappearance in town begins to tease a number of these stories out into the open, with results that really give the town something to talk about. The stories emerge against the backdrop of Indiana's larger history of secrets, ranging from pre-Civil War anti-slavery societies to post-Reconstruction Klan activities. Heaven, Indiana weaves the subtle humor and muted manners of the Hoosier State together with its sometimes foolish and sometimes devastating legacy of secrets to trace how Ellie Denson does, finally, manage to leave and Nadja does, finally, truly get to come home.
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