[MAIPC] Honeysuckle Chipping

[Conner McBane]

Hi Alison,


I have done a lot of amur honeysuckle management--chipping, pulling, and cut-stump treatments. Although this is anecdotal evidence, I have never seen negative impacts from chipping or leaving amur honeysuckle skeletons in a pile. It is amazing how fast the spice bush has come back in many of the areas I have worked on--we are actually having to manage some of the spice bush as well just to keep these areas in early-succession. My recommendation would be to pile the brush to provide wildlife habitat, but again like Norris said, if it's too labor intensive do not bother. From my experience, chipping is almost not worth it if you have equipment that can move some of the honeysuckle brush.


Conner McBane

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Appalachian Trail Conservancy
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Subject: [MAIPC] Honeysuckle Chipping


Hi everyone,

Does anyone have information about whether it is advisable to leave wood chips in place when removing amur honeysuckle from a forest?  I am planning to cut our dense infestation of honeysuckle at Woodend Nature Sanctuary and treat stumps with glyphosate.  We have a spicebush population that hopefully will benefit from the reduced competition, plus we will be doing restoration planting of tree seedlings, shrub and herbaceous species.  My concern is whether the allelopathic effects of amur honeysuckle arise only from root exudates of live plants or whether decaying honeysuckle woodchips would also suppress other vegetation.

Any advice would be much appreciated,

Alison



[cid:ansclrtagresizedcrop076065]        Alison Pearce, PhD

Alison Pearce, PhD
Director of Restoration
Audubon Naturalist Society
8940 Jones Mill Road
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
(301) 652-9188 x30
Alison.Pearce at anshome.org


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