dogghr
Well-Known Member
You never know sometimes just what our management choices affects. We choose plants and trees and animals to fit our agenda at times. Yes deer are our primary focus but I'd say most on this type forum have an outlook of a landscape that ultimately nature prefers.
The Hawthorn tree, we can hate its thorns that can puncture eye or tire equally. Sometimes working hard with its eradication. Yes it provides food and nesting for birds. Yes it makes a good rot free fence post. But most of us don't care much for it and with loss of anything we don't like, their can be ramifications. The Loggerhead Shrike, one of many of this family, is a unique carnivorous songbird. With a hooked beak to capture prey, but missing the strong talons of many hawk type birds, it impales its prey on the thorn of the Hawthorn, or barbed wire fencing. With clean farming of eliminating such trees and brush free fence rows, the Shrike family is becoming extinct. There is thot to be only 500 pair of the Loggerhead in the world, and my land is home of a few of these birds.
My point? Not so much of the demise of a species, but that it is important to sit back and take evaluation of how any of our choices of something not needed in the grand scheme of things can indeed have significant actions of plant or animal. So when you complain of too many rodents chewing your tree plantings, maybe it is not the rodents problem, but the choice we have made in management of the land. Before eliminating anything, study its need as you fix that thorn punctured flat tire.
Just your Monday morning thot for the day from the rambling mountain man.
The Hawthorn tree, we can hate its thorns that can puncture eye or tire equally. Sometimes working hard with its eradication. Yes it provides food and nesting for birds. Yes it makes a good rot free fence post. But most of us don't care much for it and with loss of anything we don't like, their can be ramifications. The Loggerhead Shrike, one of many of this family, is a unique carnivorous songbird. With a hooked beak to capture prey, but missing the strong talons of many hawk type birds, it impales its prey on the thorn of the Hawthorn, or barbed wire fencing. With clean farming of eliminating such trees and brush free fence rows, the Shrike family is becoming extinct. There is thot to be only 500 pair of the Loggerhead in the world, and my land is home of a few of these birds.
My point? Not so much of the demise of a species, but that it is important to sit back and take evaluation of how any of our choices of something not needed in the grand scheme of things can indeed have significant actions of plant or animal. So when you complain of too many rodents chewing your tree plantings, maybe it is not the rodents problem, but the choice we have made in management of the land. Before eliminating anything, study its need as you fix that thorn punctured flat tire.
Just your Monday morning thot for the day from the rambling mountain man.