Mike Otto/Bob Lusk say anything under 4" diameter - remove ASAP.

Anything over 4" diameter, leave it put - rotting roots will create fissures and risk total dam failure.

I walk my pond 3x annually and pull/spray willow and cottonwoods and spray cattails. It's not hard work once you stay on top of them, and I always find something new/cool going on around my pond where I don't often get to walk.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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