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trees became severely overcrowded impenetrable thicket of The other nonnative
community is 
and unhealthy. The drought of honeysuckle or buckthorn. even farther away
from home 
1976 resulted in very high . . . here. This is the Rocky Mountain 
The juniper knoll just south of 
mortality in many parts of the . forest complex on the Grady 
Gallistel Woods has also presented 
forest. Dr. Kline, with the help of . . . . . Tract. Plans exist for developing
a 
 difficulties. Before the junipers           . 
the DNR forester has marked  series of communities ranging 
 were planted, a large amount of 
over half of the existing trees for          . . . . from the very dry pinyon-jumper
 sand was deposited on this site in 
removal, and this thinning has            . to the fairly mesic spruce-fir
and 
 an attempt to provide the dry, 
been accomplished on about six   . . lodgepole pine communities. The 
 nutrient-poor environment 
acres of the fifty acres planted in      . . . . most successful of these
plantings 
 characteristic of juniper knolls. 
the Leopold Pines and the Grady  . . has been the ponderosa pines, and 
 This has not been entirely 
Tract. The thinning was very              . there are those who say it has
 successful, however, with the 
successful and completion of this          . . . been too successful because
the 
 result that, while the junipers are 
task is imperative.  . pines are starting to block a very 
 doing well, many other plants are 
 The northern lowland forests  nice view of the city of Madison. 
 too, and the knoll has been 
have not received the attention the                 . The Douglas fir forest
has been 
 overrun by unwanted species. 
upland forests have received, and Several Friends work parties have less
successful, and many of the 
success in establishing these . . . . . components of this forest complex
materially improved this situation. 
communities has not been very  have never been planted. In view 
Fire management here would be 
great. The tamarack plantings . . of our notable lack of success in 
difficult because of the 
have been most successful. These . . . . establishing an understory in the
flammability of the jumpers. 
trees seem to transplant easily, and  Leopold Pines, it would appear 
some fairly large ones were   Two probably overambitious that it would be
easier to move 
brought in and have grown well, attempts were made to establish in the Arboretum
to Colorado than 
Black spruce and white cedar have the Arboretum plant communities to establish
a Rocky Mountain 
also been planted and are not native to Wisconsin. The first forest in Wisconsin.
surviving. But no ecologist would of these is the Ohio Valley   The native
communities that 
claim that we have anything hardwood planting in the southern existed here
when the Arboretum 
resembling real northern lowland part of Gallistel Woods. This was was established
have also had their 
forest communities in the intended to represent the wet-mesic share of problems.
The wooded 
Arboretum. The white cedar forests that grow farther south, areas have suffered
the invasion of 
community looks like a deer yard, and plantings of magnolia, some weedy species,
notably the 
but probably the biggest disaster sassafras, tulip tree, and a number ubiquitous
honeysuckle and 
has been around Teal Pond, where of small trees and shrubs, buckthorn (Rhamnus
cathartica). 
a taxonomic error resulted in the including flowering dogwood and Noe Woods
is in the best shape, 
planting of European alder (Alnus redbud, were made there. So far, but its
maintenance has required a 
glutinosa) instead of the native the results have been lot of effort spent
eraaicating the 
species (A. rugosa). European disappointing. Many of the species honeysuckle
and some Norway 
alder grows very rapidly and gets have managed to survive, but have maples
that managed to get 
much larger than the native alder. so far failed to establish an established
there. The sandy slopes 
It also sprouts prolifically when authentic sample of the Ohio above the
Greene Prairie formerly 
cut, so that attempts to eradicate Valley hardwood forest. It has supported
an oak opening. This 
it have only resulted in a large been suggested that these opening is now
much smaller 
increase in the number of stems. nonnative species might do better because
the numerous young oaks 
The fact that our most noxious if the oaks that tower over them there quickly
became small trees 
woody weeds, the hybrid were judiciously thinned. But the after grazing stopped
following 
honeysuckle and buckthorn, thrive idea of destroying good native acquisition
of the land, and also 
on moist sites adds to the species in order to encourage a because of as
1954 fire, which 
problem, and large areas of the nonnative community is not an destroyed many
of the large trees 
Arboretum have an almost altogether attractive one. but apparently stimulated
the 
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