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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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. </p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:30:35 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Honeysuckle Chipping</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Brush Script Std"">Alison</span></p>
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