I guess it's almost impossible to protect fruit trees in remote Alaska.
Larry D. Cook
--- On Thu, 4/11/13, Duane Ose <osemtnak.ose2@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Duane Ose <osemtnak.ose2@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: oseountainalaska.com
To: "Larry D. Cook" <cookfrenchlick@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 8:04 PM
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From: Duane Ose <osemtnak.ose2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Subject: oseountainalaska.com
To: nutgrowers@yahoogroups.com
Thank you for all your help and suggestions to me to keep the Moose from
eating my fruit trees.
It would be nice to have winter Apple trees growing tall and protected before
I die. Moose eat trees. Moose are very good at trimming trees. This would be
okay if they were tall enough but is stunts or kills the apple trees. Moose
really love the new young apple trees. Frustrating I have went through a lot
of time and effort in protecting the tree's by tall welded wire fencing.
Works for a time but they are huge and if they want the tree, there is no
stopping them. Baring a fence made of bars that would hold an Elephant.
I have sort of giving up. The Bing Cheery trees are doing fine. Those trees
were the first I planted and had a chance to get tall before they found them.
Now they just keep the lower branches trimmed. and the new short Apple trees
are on there menu.
If any one wanted to bait for Moose just cut a bunch of saplings before the
leaves fall off and pile them up like a hay stack and all winter they will
feed on the pile till all the brush is gone.. I have done this by clearing an
area. intending to later burn the pile. But the Moose clean it up for me. I
have at times seen 3 at a time on the pile just munching away paying no
attention to me.
For the most part I live with the wild life. But come trapping season I have
a 100 mile trap line. I take only enough and leave breed stock for the
fallowing season. Wolves, Wolverine, Martin, Lynx, Ermin, and the different
Fox. The Fur provides us with money for what we need to buy in town.
Your Last to have filed a Federal Homestead in U.S.A. Oct. 12th 1986. The
Homestead act of 1862 ended for good after I filed. The Government took it's
time and finally finished the paper work on a Man that filed in 1974 and
calls him the last Homesteader.... Well ! it was not my fault that the
Government took so long to complete the paper work. I was the last to "file"
thus I think I should be the one who is called the last Homesteader. .Sec.
36,/ T.S. 8,/ R. 20 W./, Kantishna Distric Alaska.