This past week had us scouting, falling, limbing, and removing pine trees infected with Mountain pine beetle and the Western pine beetle.
We had to remove around 65 trees from infected pockets scattered throughout the golf course property. This is amount of trees is similar to previous years. Areas where trees were removed include 1 fairway, 10 fairway, 12 tee, 14 tee, 14 fairway, and 16 fairway. Most of these areas are known to us so we knew where to start looking and weren't to surprised when we found infected trees. We were a little surprised to find more of the Ponderosa (Bull Pine) had been hit by the Western pine beetle. So far the Western seems to have a preference for the smaller trees in "out of the way" locations.
Logs from the trees were stacked in staging areas and then transported to a local mill.
Other tree work this time of year includes the application of drain tile to tree limbs to stop the deer from damaging the bark with their antlers.
This past week had us scouting, falling, limbing, and removing pine trees infected with Mountain pine beetle and the Western pine beetle.
