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The latest word from the professionals for pine management in south central 
WI (& for my situation include light soils-- w/in commuting distance of 
Leopold's plantings!) is to keep black-locusts well away from pine plantings. 
 I think allelopathy was mentioned, but I suspect competition for moisture & 
sunlight is the bigger problem.
 
On the other hand, some amazingly nice black-cherry can be grown in a 
black-locust grove.  When the cherries are forced to grow tall fast, AND are 
supplied with nitrogen, they do very well.
 


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> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:09:29 -0400
> From: dwoodard
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] (no subject)
>
> I have read of American work (Wisconsin? possibly in Aldo Leopold's
> "Game Management") and seen pictures, of growing black locust with
> conifers to greatly improve the growth rate of the conifers.
>
> I have read of Russian work (published in the 1960s I think) using
> caragana to improve the growth of poplars.
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
> jas39a@earthlink.net wrote:
>> I didn't see the original post, but I might weigh in here....Yellow-poplar 
>> (which isn't a true poplar, but a member of the Magnolia family) 
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