More than 50 denizens of the area around the Albion River crowded into the Albion School during the evening of April 11th to discuss the 586-acre timber harvest plan Mendocino Redwood Company has proposed for the lower Albion. The headline of the evening came from MRC’s Albion forester, John Andersen, and MRC’s president and chief forester, Mike Jani: the company will not use herbicides to control tan oak anywhere on this particular timber harvest plan. Of course there was hedging about how far into the future this pledge would last. That is contingent on redwood seedlings outgrowing the tan oak, which in turn is dependent on MRC’s willingness to spend money on the labor required to curtail too much tan oak growth so that fledgling redwoods can gain a healthy foothold. Andersen and Jani claim that they have witnessed significant enough growth from redwood seedlings planted in 1996 by their predecessor-in-interest, Louisiana-Pacific, to justify avoiding herbicide (imazapyr) use on neighboring tan oak.
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