Neighbor is Clear Cutting

Hi Morningstar,
If you want something that grows fast and will give you quick privacy and help with the erosion. I would use Siberian Peashrub. Birds brought me a start and I had to look them up to see what they were. They are supposedly hardy in almost any zone and easily adapts to all soils. They are green year round here in Oklahoma. With plenty of water they will grow to be thick tall bushes in no time. They sent up new bushes from root shoots. They are easily mown down while young so can be kept in check, or will soon make a thick hedge.
Will any kind of bamboo or cane grow in your area. They hold the soil tight and give a quick privacy hedge to.
If you would like some Siberian Peashrub seeds or a photo of what they look like, PM me with a email address.

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Sitting around talking tonight we were thinking clumping bamboo. Are we crazy to plant bamboo? It would be the clumping kind and not the runner type. It is very pretty, useful, and grows quick. Are we asking for troubles?

I would think you'd want variety, especially since it's such a long line. I'd mix in lots of native trees and shrubs. I personally wouldn't plant bamboo, I would go for native species all the way.

Bamboo makes a good privacy barrier and is good for erosion control. Yes, it will grow in Oregon. In fact, I think there is a vendor in Oregon.
I have 10 varieties of running-type bamboo planted on my property here in Arkanasas(so far).

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We are very wooded. I just want something in the bare spots along the way. Plenty of variety here.

Well, they brought in big equipment yesterday to make a road and the chainsaws started this morning. I just heard the first tree fall a little bit ago. I guess 2 weeks was more like 2 days. My daughter and neighbor put a couple of "private drive, go slow, children and animals, no dust" signs they hand made. They really haven't been bad though.

I wanted to take some before pics and I can't find my darn camera! Oh, well, hopefully they can't get them all cut down before I can find it.

The family and I were talking and I'm wondering if he is going to sub-divide. I got to thinking because a friend a little farther out is logging her back 4 acres and selling it with a well and road for $200K. He is looking to retire so may want to money. I guess we shall see. I was going to go down to the county anyways to see about re-zoning my own land (from one house to two houses without subdividing) and I'm going to see if he has an application in. Not much we can do about it but I am curious.

Just a tidbit for the folks back east -- in the mixed deciduous/conifer forests in the eastern half of the country, selective cutting is usually the best way to log. But in the conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest, clearcutting is usually the best way to log. One reason is that Douglas Fir (the most desirable species in a large portion of the area) requires a lot of light on the young seedlings, or they won't grow. If you selective cut, it leaves too many shade trees.

Someone mentioned that brush and blackberries grow up so quickly that erosion and landslides are unlikely, and that is true, unless the land is extremely steep. Even then erosion and landslides are rare. The trees are cut and removed, and there will of course be some damage to the surface of the ground, but there will still be enough moss and duff to absorb most of the rainfall. The exception is when there has been a fire through the area and the moss and duff is burned. That's where you get erosion and landslides in this part of the country.

I wouldn't worry too much about the logging next door, Morningstar. My grandmother had some logging done on her old place over on the Coast (Grandad was sick and she needed the money). It was very steep land, difficult to even walk up, and at one point, after considerable rain, a logging truck (which shouldn't have been up there -- she'd told them it was still too wet), slid and then turned over, but there was no erosion and no landslides, and now, about twelve or thirteen years later, it's all growing back up with trees and hard to even tell it had been logged.

Kathleen

Thanks Kathleen

I appreciate your helpful words. They really have been fine so far.

Will the Leyland Cypress grow ok in SW Washington as well??????

Thanks
Wayne

no need for you to plant anything. by the time it would grow to any size Mother Nature will have taken care of the problem on the other side with lots of shrubs and bushes, unless the neighbor keeps it mowed down, that would be different.

Go get a throwaway camera now,dont miss those pictures.

BooBoo

Shouldn't be a problem - my folks grew them in the BattleGround area quite successfully!

Where is "around here"

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