REN R495 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mulch, Hydroseeding, Woodchips
5 Feb 2019
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Using the forestry reclamation approach to restore forest vegetation on reclamation sites in alberta eckehart marenholtz. Scalability helping trees get started, placing a mulch mat around it. Wood mulch dump trucks are 2242022420$ Film mulch cornstarch, biodegradable over 3 years: till the soil, probably won"t work for oil sands. Paper mulch (also hemp) challenging to make and use. Hydraulic mulch cannon spray thicker layer of mulch onto test plots: very expensive, but works very well. Ground cover plants: used random native grass mix. Success of this site was determined by: large planting stock (2 year old bare root aspen stock, poplar stakes. After 4 years: coniferous trees not a lot of different between mulch vs. no mulch. And hitchhicker planting to establish native understory. The deployment of native plant species to rec sites using live greenhouse-grown root material as a propagule source. Propagule material can be handled without live tops, orientation does not matter during storage and planting.
