2002 Draft Natural Resources Management

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� Community `Activity "` ,�: Przortty , . �stimated Cost ` . Comments -` _ ,. , .; . , -, ; , ; . . .. , , ,; , �� VL-2 Plan[ native tree Medium $500-2,000 per Plant native hardwood trees and shrub acre (primarily bur and pin oak}. seedlings Additional species listed in gencral management recomrnendations section of rcport VI.-U2 Cu[ nonnative Medium-low $1,000 Cut and treat all stumps with shrubs and trees 25-50% solution of Roundup or Garlon. VL,-U2 Reintroduce Low $500 — 5,OQ0+ Reintroduce appropriate local native pround depending on origin plant materials through cover specics number of planting of piugs or seed. T�iis species, plants, can bc done 10-30 years after seed. native tree planting as canopy closurc becins Community VL-U3 Lowland Hardwood Forest Qualitative Rank: CD Nonnative Shrub Rank: 16 This comix►unity occurs on a generally northeast-facing slope adjacent to VL-U-2. This iormerly open area was likely a pasture with widely scattered bur and pin oak in the first half of the 1900's. It is now a nearly closed forest cornposed of trees typical of la�vland areas that are capable of establishing quickly. The most cornmon of these include c}uaking aspen, cottonwood, boxelder and Arnerican elrn. Most of these pioneer trees average betwcen 10 and 1$ inches in diameter. The pin and bur oaks that remain here are concentrated on the higher elevations near the south end. Most of these oaks have open-grown form and exceed 24 inches in diameter. The shrub layer varies from moderately thick to nearly impenetrable in some places. It is largely dominated by nonnatives. "1'hese include European and �lossy buckihorn, Tartarian honeysuckle, and only rarely white mulberry. The most comznon native mcmbers of the shrub layer are � City of Roseville 144 Parks Natiiral Kesource Mar�agenient �