re: Ice absolutely decimated my live oaks (TX Hill Country)

fricking global warming

Neighborhood is pretty bad off but I think I got it among the worst.

My theory is that because I don't have irrigation in the front, my trees were even more brittle and sick from the drought. In the back where I have some massive ones, the damage isn't as bad, but they get a lot more water from the septic sprayers.

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Dammit! I hunt up by Llano. Im guessing I’ll be chainsawing all Mardi Gras break and not hunting

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Work all day and get some Cooper's for dinner.

But yeah, on my undeveloped acreage, it's kind of hard to walk through now, whereas before, I had trails cleared.

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decimated

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a word that is used incorrectly way too often

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Work all day and get some Cooper's for dinner.

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Weve got some fire Mexican places around the lease that we like. How did the mesquite make it? I may bring some saw and come home with fire and smoking wood.

That is heartbreaking. If trees grew back fast, like grass, it would be bad enough. But live oaks and other serious trees take a long time to recover, regrow, or be replaced. Sorry.

in some cases ice storms are good for the trees, nature’s way of pruning, trimming back dead or dying parts

I'm surprised oak wilt hasn't got them already. My brother lost branches from his Cedar Elm and a live oak in far southwest austin from the ice.

Man that sucks. I had one damn tree in my yard, a live oak and Ida took it down.

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We also seal, although I've read that doesn't necessarily help but who knows?

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My brother's inlaws have a ranch outside fredericksburg, never prune their Oaks and 80% of them are dead from oak wilt. I'm talking several hundred dead live oaks.