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Peter Smallidge's Blog – January 2012 Archive (1)

Adding pasture to woods and plantation

There are two ways to create silvopasture, add pasture to woods or add trees to pasture. Adding pasture to woods involves manipulating the existing woods to allow enough sunlight to the forest floor to stimulate the growth of desired forage species. Always seek input from a forester when manipulating woody vegetation (either planting or cutting).

In the most general sense, the process of adding pasture to forest will remove some trees while leaving other trees. The goal is to…

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Added by Peter Smallidge on January 2, 2012 at 9:42am — No Comments

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