>>2836238This is an area i havent done much with.
This was 100% sand when I bought the property. The sweet gum trees and weeds are overtaking it.
When a forest burns or is clear cut there are stages to reforestation.
First its weeds and briars.
Then bushes and fast growing soft woods- most of which are species you've never heard of because they're crap.
Once the crap trees start to get a canopy they choke out the weeds. As they fight eachother for sunlight the smaller trees die off.
As they've been doing this the hard woods like oaks have slowly been getting a footing and sending down roots. A live oak can grow for a decade before it breaks the surface. Most oaks have 2x the root structure underground for whatever tree you see above ground.
Eventually it stabilizes and oaks climb. They take advantage of any break in the canopy and eventually out grow the smaller soft woods and take over the canopy.
And 50 years later you have a nice mixed forest.
Im trying to skip those first 40 years.
