Vic,
Did you try the NH State Forest Nursery, (I'm sure
state of NH leaves a bad taste),
sorry about that.... They have really good stocks
& prices on nut and indigenous specie
for NH? (No apple though)?
The hazelnut, arborvitae and cranberry were all
nice for the prices, had no losses
from theses seedling stocks at all.
Here's the tree offer page.....
Best wishes,
Gianni
S. NH
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 6:30
AM
Subject: Re: [nafex] free water
Hi Del, I don't remember where you are. An excellent
book on farm reclamation which has a lot of input on fish ponds is Louis
Bromfield's, Malabar Farm. If I had had my copy returned to me years ago, I
would lend it to you. You can try the local library. Also, you can
check with your local extension office about the fish farming and other
pond life. Up here in Zone 3 NH, we can use horned pout, perch, bass,
sunfish or trout species depending on the depth and movement of the
water. Thanks for the info on the "Partners in Wildlife" program. We are
losing 60% of a half acre man made pond (the deep end of course) on our
farm to the state highway which is being widened. They refuse to completely
fill it in or replace it elsewhere on the farm, which has two excellent
potential pond sites, one which is an overflowing spring. We have no
potential blowout problem since we are in river bottom land. The estimates (3)
we received for the cost of building a half acre pond to take the place of
the one being destroyed average $15,000. If this program is like you say,
it could be the answer to our prayers. Maybe someone out there will have
the answer to our prayers on how to affordably replace the over 500 maple,
birch, apple, black cherry and other trees, a thirty year old growth,
(apples are older). Some of these are being removed to widen the road, but
most are being removed to provide the contractor with parking space for
vehicles and equipment. We would be happy to use the smallest nursery trees
available and are not trying to replace them all. Even so, the price is
prohibitive, and NO, the state doesn't get involved in that part of it.
They just make a ridiculous offer of acquisition based on the difference of
what an appraiser thinks the over all value of the property is before and
after. If you don't like it, which we don't , they take it by eminent
domain, which they did! We are grateful for any ideas on ponds, plantings,
(I have 96+- seedling apple that can at least border the highway) or
programs..................vic
del stubbs
wrote:
> after
getting the go around with the soils and conservation district and > the
DNR for 2 years trying to work out their cost-sharing etc. programs
for > creating ponds, as well as their wetland restrictions, we came
onto a real > beauty. Its called the "partners in wildlife"
program, by the U.S. Fish and > Wildlife service. In complete
contrast to the others it is quite well > funded. The local
fellow has put in over 500 ponds in one county, free to > the landowner,
restricted only to not removing it for 10 years. On
one > end I hired a trackhoe operator to dig 6 feet down, to give a 9+
deep hole > for droughts, swimming etc. > Hows this on
topic for nafex? Its abundant water near my orchard and > garden
areas i can tap into, for irrigating. All together we have 10
acres > of wildlife ponds, where was only seeps and seasonal marshes
before., my > only imagined concerns are filtering out dirt and
algea, and having > sufficient pressure for
drips. > This part
applies to the Canadiens- when recently teaching in Saskatchewan >
(north of Saskatoon) i noticed these short windmills an ponds, and
learned > they are for aereation. Anyone know of an address or web
site for such. > as well as site for info on COLD climate fish
farming? I intend to gas > pump the water uphill to a
storage tank and use gravity feed for a drip > system >
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