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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks so much to Conner and others for your advice. The consensus seems to be that the dead honeysuckle biomass is not a major concern. So I will be chipping
some of it mostly for aesthetic reasons, and creating brush piles with the rest. Anyone have a chipper they love to recommend that can be pulled by hand until someone buys me a Gator??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Conner McBane [mailto:cmcbane@appalachiantrail.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 26, 2018 12:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alison Pearce; 'maipc@lists.maipc.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Honeysuckle Chipping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> MAIPC <<a href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org">maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:30:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'maipc@lists.maipc.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Honeysuckle Chipping</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal">Any advice would be much appreciated,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script Std"">Alison</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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