This winter is beginning with perfect weather for forestry work in-house. Here you can see that Bernardo, Caesar and Noe have cleared all of the invasive brush in the natural area behind 4 green. The clearing of the invasive brush will allow the grasses to grow in these areas. The grasses will allow for us to get a better controlled burn cycle of these areas for the control of invasive plants that compromise water quality and wildlife habitat.
We are going hole by hole and trimming up low hanging branches
that interfere with a full back-swing.
We are removing the brush that is growing in our naturalized pond embankments and perimeters. This allows for a clearer shot to the greens. It is also an important environmental practice that mitigates silt deposits. When brush is allowed to overgrow water edges, the shade that is cast from the brush reduces the grasses that are integral in holding the soils in place from erosion.
This is the natural area left of 1 green. By removing the invasive brush we will allow more sunlight to reach the forest floor so that grasses and wildflowers can grow. This will will provide a more beautiful and natural habitat for wild life. It also allows golfers to find
their ball with greater ease. And the denser ground cover
growth will help with controlling silt.
Here you can see we have cut down a dead Austrian Pine tree behind 1 green. The pines that were planted at Bittersweet are not native and therefore we will be reallocating the resources that were consumed by the non-native pines for improving the dozens of native plant and wildlife habitat areas which are spread throughout the entire property.
Here we have removed a grove of invasive buck-thorn and honeysuckle brush that will gradually restore itself to its original native prairie grass design.
Another dead pine tree has been removed here.
A lot of wood is on the ground and ready to be run through
the chipper as soon as we get some frozen ground to
run the truck and chipper over.
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