Very easily. It is a common forest recovery phase after logging has cleared the environment of most or all native trees. Both natural and introduced it is considered a weed hardwood. Grows very rapidly, has a short life span, and quickly decomposes. If used in commercial wood products it has to be treated with residual fungicides as it readily harbors mold spores.If I recall birch molds easily
sure is prettyVery easily. It is a common forest recovery phase after logging has cleared the environment of most or all native trees. Both natural and introduced it is considered a weed hardwood. Grows very rapidly, has a short life span, and quickly decomposes. If used in commercial wood products it has to be treated with residual fungicides as it readily harbors mold spores.
I'm thinking of the thousands of acres of old growth fir and redwood forests that were clearcut then Birch allowed to grow back, completely inhibiting the native tree regrowth. choking spawning waterways and permanently altering the ecosystem. Then the USFS goes in or allows helicopter spraying of herbicides to control the birch which often enters the streams and rivers.sure is pretty
or when a former VP says "Salmon don't vote" and allows the river to be so drained it completely wipes out a spawning class......or ranchers being allowed to cut pasture to the rovers edge and the cattle fill the REDDs full of silt....I'm thinking of the thousands of acres of old growth fir and redwood forests that were clearcut then Birch allowed to grow back, completely inhibiting the native tree regrowth. choking spawning waterways and permanently altering the ecosystem. Then the USFS goes in or allows helicopter spraying of herbicides to control the birch which often enters the streams and rivers.
Then people end up like they are right now, no salmon or steelhead and no salmon fishing season - cancelled.
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Amen. As the song says, "Don't it always seem to go but you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise and put in a parking lot."n other words "Don't get me started brother"