Weird, cool stuff you found in the woods.

Is that the Andy Griffith cruiser? I know he & Barney drove a Galaxie, but wasn't sure if they started with the '59.

 

The series started in 1960.
They always used a current year car provided by the local Ford dealer for a promotional note in the credits.

When the new models came out the old car was returned to the dealer, painted and sold as a used car.

 

the thing about banded herbaceous weed control operations…..

 

Are the tree farms spraying pesticide in strips or bands before planting the pine seedlings?

 

Most regen foresters use a broadcast herbicide site prep a season ahead of planting. To keep competing vegetation from overtaking loblolly pine seedlings, a light chem Rx is applied a few months after planting in the spring. To save $$$ many managers have been sending ground crews in to just treat the planted rows of trees. That’s usually it for herbicide for a stand of trees that occupy a site for 25-35 years in your area. Most other agriculture gets a few treatments every year.
Many nonindustrial private and public reforestation ops are longleaf pine in Georgia and a lot of that is managed with fire rather than chemicals…. Sorry more than you wanted prolly! Tree nerds

 

Thanks for describing how the planting and management of pine seedlings is performed in your part of the country. The vegetation would overtake the seedlings if the herbicides weren't applied. I enjoy reading about forest management techniques. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I have seen pine tree farms in South Georgia with ground cover that is burned in the winter.

When traveling through national forests I often see wildlife openings with new plants and trees that replace dead or damaged trees. I want to know what are the processes chosen for these areas. The black bears in the southeastern US will climb into persimmon trees and break the limbs to get to the fruit. The Forest Service plants these trees in wildlife openings as food plots for the deer and bears. Every year the crews are working on these feed plots that are in designated Wildlife Management Areas (WMA's) for hunting. When closed to hunting in the summer months they are great places to view wildlife with spotting scopes and binoculars.

 

The "weird, cool" thing about National Forests are that they all have unique management objectives and stakeholders. One can find an actual management plan for whichever forest you are interested in (often online) and learn exactly why they are doing whatever on the landscape and how. Go to a timber company website and you'll find a beautiful ESG report written by the co. legal team, lobbyists, and spun by a communications grad. Those are written for shareholders not stakeholders. Your forest sounds "cool".

 

couple shots of a "Dragon's Tail"

 

Not technically the woods, but because I live right on the edge of a desert-like park, these quail-like birds are in my front yard. A neighbor says they become annoying for him in the early morning, but I will have to see if that is true for me.

 

It’s hard to tell but that looks like a male and female California Quail. Are you out west?

 

Phoenix. Yes, they have the head-feathers that lop-over.

My new rental house is at the eastern edge of South Mountain Park, dead in the middle of Phoenix, 15 miles east-west and 6 miles north-south.

And it will be 80+/-1 until next Tuesday. Then it goes "polar" to 74.

 

Gotcha, I thought they looked familiar. I’m in the PNW and they can be found around here too. I grew up in the Midwest where we would go hunting for Bobwhite Quail. Some good times with my dad out bird hunting

 

When it opens up, you need to go see the Mystery Castle right close to your neighborhood.
http://www.mymysterycastle.com/

 

And it's not even a pine tree...

 

Looks like a deciduous tree to me.

 

There is one tree of the pine group that looses it's needles come winter.

 

Tamarac Pine ??