Joanne Vaughn

Female

Scottsville, NY

United States

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How many acres of woodland do you own or annually manage?
9 + 18 with pasture and few trees
Please describe, with two or three sentences, why you are interested in woodlot ecology and management. Your answer helps us ensure that only those people truly interested in woodlots are added as members.
We are creating a silvopasture in abandoned cropland that became woodland, that was devastated by EAB and then logged with slash left behind and then became a junkyard.

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  • Ronald L Frisbee

    Welcome to Forest Connect!  This is a great site to build relationships and learn how to become more engaged with your woods.

    Ron Frisbee

    Master Forest Owner facilitator CCE Columbia and Greene Counties

    rf369@cornell.edu

    Jul 9, 2014

  • chris S

    It is horrible that your voles are so voracious!  I’m sure fox would love to eat the voles, but of course you need fencing and donkeys to protect the sheep.  

    Voles are easy to trap (cover a mousetrap with a box that has an entry hole) but then you’d have to empty and reset the traps daily.  I throw the dead rodents where I think fox will travel, and they’re always gone by the next morning.  

    I’ve read that you can put in landing posts to encourage raptors to hunt your field. Basically tall posts with a crossbar perch on top.  That would be nice to do, and probably control your voles if you could entice a raptor or two to stay in your land.  It’d be great to have a hawk pair by day and an owl pair by night!  The perch posts would encourage both.  Some owls will nest in wood-built owlhouses.  

    I definitely can agree that voles LOVE to live under cardboard and in shallow compost piles.  IDK if placing such things away from your baby trees would keep them busy elsewhere.  

    Jan 11, 2020