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  • From: "Erdman, Jim" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fruit trees for timber
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:04:33 -0600



-----Original Message-----
Charles Paradise wrote:

> In an unrelated question, why are you planting common hardwood
species
> when you could be planting species such as Alnus Rubra, or Black
> Locust, which would yield excellent wood but also improve the soil?

We got financial assistance to plant trees that were "recommended"
for the site, and those are the oaks, ash, pine, and spruce, and that was a
big help in getting the plantings started. I am getting some Black Locust
started in a corner of one field that is close to a neighbor with black
locust on his property, so I am not neglecting that tree. I am not real
impressed with working wood from black locust, though, and we do like working
with apple, plum, etc., so that is why I asked about fruit woods in
particular.

I appreciate everyone's remarks about planting trees so far.

Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI

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