This and That About Trees

This and That About Trees

or

2 weeks training in 30 minutes

The “Rules”

CPA-052

• Not so bad

• Good start of a conservation plan

• Encourages us to think of consequences

• Keeps NRCS out of hot water

Cultural

• Tree plantings are undertakings

• We will check– Some locally, some through state office

• On this – much easier to ask permission than beg forgiveness

• Plan ahead

One Call

• Generally not “Required” for tree planting

• BUT…….

Required “Stuff” FOTG

• IV Specs

• II 20-Year Tree Heights

• IV Tree Care and Management

• II Soil Map

• II Field Determination of Soil Components

• II Soil Interpretive Tables

• IV Windbreak Design Form

Setbacks

ND Laws / Rules That Apply to Setbacks

•33 feet to section line - Century Code

•not within easement of overhead utilities, without recorded permission.

•not within 20’ of international boundary, at maturity

•100’ crossing legal and private drainages,

•not within 16’ of property line without written permission from both parties

•???’ based on local ordances or codes

200-600’

100’

≥200’

≥200’

≥200’ ≥200’ ≥100’

≥100’or ≥3H

≥100’

≥5H

≥5H

NRoad and Building Setbacks

???Why are Setbacks Such a Big Issue???

Soils

Soil Components

MLRA Symbol (National Symbol) Map Unit Name Component Name

Composition (percent)

Slope (percent)

Conservation Tree & Shrub

Group

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Williams 54 6-Mar 3

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Zahl 16 6-Mar 8k

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Zahill 11 6-Mar 8k

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Bowbells 10 6-Mar 1

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Hamerly 4 6-Mar 2kk

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Tonka 2 0-1 2

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Lehr 1 6-Feb 6g

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Noonan 1 0-1 9n

C132B (2q2jh) Williams-Zahl loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes Parnell 1 0-1 10

Potential Snowfence Location/ AOI from Web Soil Survey example

CTSG Soil Components example

• AaA Agar silt loam 0-2 % slope Occurrence CTSG

– Agar 90% 3

– Eakin 4% 3

– Onita 4% 1

– Hoven 1 10

– Macken 1 10

• OnA Onita silt loam 0-2% slope

– Onita 90 1

– Degrey 5 9C

– Hoven 5 10

Potential living snowfenc site.

Potential living snowfence site.

New Trees

‘Mongolian’ Scotch Pine

Lodgepole Pine

Douglas Fir

Arborvitae

Seed Sources

It is not where it is grown

But rather

Where its genetics came from

Variance Request Info Needs•Completed design form

•Name and address of client

•Legal description of variance location

•Specific request

•Why better than FOTG

Weighted Average Crop Yield Increase:Corn - 12%Soybeans -13Barley - 25%Winter Wheat - 23%Spring Wheat - 8%Hay - 20%

(Compilation of data from 50 world-wide studies 1934-1984; John Kort, 1988)

1 = Area of windbreak not planted to crop2 = Normal crop loss at field borders3 = Crop loss due to nutrient and moisture competition near trees4 = Crop gain due to windbreak effects5 = Normal crop yield from field without windbreaks 4 minus 1 minus 2 minus 3 = net yield benefit due to windbreak

Distance from Windbreak in Units of Windbreak Heights (H)

Quick Review

Cliff Notes (Handout)

Glen Harold Mine Reclamation – About 10 years old

Wildlife Design

• Species of interest

• Address all four cover types; loafing, nesting, winter, escape

• Diversity Diversity Diversity

• Go native for most situations

• Be alert to off site spread potential

• God never planted in straight rows – Go radical – Plant crooked rows.