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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Honey locust trees
  • Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:09:53 -0800

Joanne Murray wrote:
Dear Paul,
Bill Mollison planted 6 honey locust trees at a place called Whytalibah in the Great Dividing Range in NSW several years ago. It has become an environmental disaster, destroying acres of land and infesting large areas of the Mann River banks. The original trees were thornless but all the ones that grew from seeds and suckers (which extended metres underground) were covered with the most evil, lethal thorns, making the whole area inaccessible and even hazardous for stock.

> The government is spending tens of thousands of dollars in control
programs; the only
way to eradicate them is with injection guns and poison and then bulldozers and huge fires. The thorns are literally lethal.

I assume all locusts are the same with regard to their ability to resist
rotting.
This makes the lumber or poles milled from harvested tree extremely valuable
as a
ground-contact rot-free (at least for many years) building material. They
could take
timber harvesting equipment and chipper-shredders into the area and bring out
economically
valuable products with harm to the operators.

Wasting natural resources such as this is commonplace these days. Not fully
recycling human
and livestock manure is another example narrow-minded economic policy
prevalent in these times.
Timber bamboo, various eastern and western cedars and locust are valuable
plants that could be
fertilized with recycled municipal sewage and various types of livestock
waste to produce robust growth
for dependable harvest cycles.


LL
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L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech




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