Transcript
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- So this is a harvest area
that we did two years ago.
It's what we call a clear cut
with structural retention.
That is we retained a lot of big trees,
a lot of dead snags for
habitat, for aesthetics,
and we also did spray this harvest unit
but we left skips within
it for pollinator habitat.
So typically after a timber harvest
where we're gonna replant trees
is we often prepare the site.
That is to reduce the competing vegetation
so that the little seedlings
are able to get up and establish.
We often use herbicides
for that, but in doing so
that can eliminate important
pollinating plants.
So there's different strategies you can do
to both reduce the
competition around seedlings
so they will grow but also to leave
important pollinator habitat
within that harvest area
by excluding herbicides.
So a couple of strategies for
retaining pollinator habitat
in harvest areas can be one, leaving skips
and skips under existing trees
that you may be leaving for habitat.
Because those trees are there
you really don't need the reforest
so therefore you don't need
to treat it with a herbicide.
You can also leave skips in areas
where there are no residual
trees that you're leaving.
You could just leave it as
really as like a garden plot
that's unsprayed allowing
the native pollinating plants
to do their thing.
So that can be done under
the ODF Food Plot Policy.
And so what you need to do
is contact your stewardship forester
to find out more information
about leaving food plots
for pollinating insects.
So a few things to think
about in leaving skips
or places that are unsprayed.
One is they need to be marked
off with flagging stakes
so that when a spray crew comes through,
they don't accidentally spray an area
that you want to protect.
So in thinking about other places
where you could leave skips,
you could have a draw or ravine
where you could leave unsprayed
or if you have an area
that's a seep, a wet seep,
you could leave like a
wide buffer around that
that's unsprayed that both
provides water as well as
intact pollinator habitat.
So in your management plan,
you may wanna mark off
these areas using GPS
and put it on a map so
it's a permanent record
of the pollinating
habitat that you've left.
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This video describes how not spraying certain areas in your forest can benefit pollinator habitat.
¡Use los pesticidas con seguridad!
- Póngase ropa de protección y equipo de seguridad según las recomendaciones de la etiqueta. Báñese después de cada uso.
- Lea la etiqueta del pesticida—aunque lo haya usado antes. Siga al pie de la letra las indicaciones de la etiqueta (y cualquiera otra indicación que Ud. tenga).
- Tenga precaución al aplicar los pesticidas. Conozca su responsabilidad legal como aplicador de pesticidas. Usted puede ser responsable de heridas o daños resultantes del uso de un pesticida.