EchovsStihl63
ArboristSite Operative
Autumn Olives are the bane of my existence. I take great joy in shoving them into the chipper and plucking the stumps out of the ground.I had DNR do an evaluation of my 30 acres in WV. They are paying me to clear 16 acres of Autumn Olive. Then the rest of the property is mature White Oak. They said it was ready to log and there was a small "Fortune" in veneer lumber in there. Being DNR they don't give any values. I thought about calling a logger then I found out you have to pay capital gains on logging so I just said to heck with it.
Someone planted my property in white pines in the mid 80s and they never got managed or harvested. Now they are crowding their self out and dying and all of the undergrowth is autumn olive or honey suckle bush. Power company came in and laid a bunch down and left them laying a few years before I bought, what a mess........