We are going to let our ash trees die slowly to provide wildlife habitat. They say a dead tree actually provides more habitat than a live one.
On my eighty plus acres there are plenty of areas where this will be the case. After establishing the small orchard it was incredible the draw it is to wildlife. The one thing I didn't have up there was open area where the nutrition is at ground level. I'm using clover and chicory as ground cover. Deer and turkeys are loving it. Different bird species are showing up and staying. This creates quite an increase to the edge habitat that wildlife thrives on. Right now it looks like hell on earth... But that will be temporary. Diversity, transition of different types of habitat... They seem drawn to that.
