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David,
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   I have picked Glossy Buckthorn at the Pugwash Estuary with the Nature Conservancy crew in past years. Things aren't as bad (or ridiculous) as you might think:
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1. The herbicide is applied on only a tiny portion of all the shrubs to be destroyed. Almost all can be simply pulled out, the herbicide is applied only to those trunks that are too thick to be pulled out with comfort.
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2. Only a small portion of the nature reserve contains Glossy Buckthorn. Much of the property  is too wet or the forest canopy is too thick.
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3. Glossy Buckthorn is a shrub of hedges and forest edges. (I know it well from my childhood in Europe.) As the infested forest in the estuary property matures and the canopy becomes more dense, the buckthorn will be pushed out.
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4. It is quite shocking how common Glosy Buckthorn is in certain parts of Nova Scotia. It is quite inconspicuous and hence often overlooked.
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Regards,
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Dusan Soudek
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<br/>> On June 9, 2014 at 9:54 AM David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:
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<br/>> Dear All, June 9, 2014
<br/>> I see some glysophate salesman has struck the mother lode. Using it to
<br/>> control Glossy Buckthorn on 1,100 acres by pulling out seedlings and
<br/>> painting glysophate on cut stumps of larger growth. At 1/2 acre per Sunday
<br/>> it will take 2200 Sundays or 42 years. Meanwhile birds in fruit season can
<br/>> sow 1,100 acres by noon. And if the soil has been disturbed by pulling up
<br/>> seedlings then the take should be very good.
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<br/>> http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1213245-glossy-buckthorn-feels-the-wrath-of-volunteers-in-pugwash-estuary
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<br/>> And all this enthusiastic trampling will no doubt inflict damage on the
<br/>> native plants that they intend to protect.
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<br/>> When one of these are cut they have to be hung upside down to prevent the
<br/>> cut ends from rooting; according to this article.
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<br/>> They must be dealing with a very different strain of Glossy Buckthorn
<br/>> than the one I know. A road that I cut through some dense Buckthorn
<br/>> thickets, just after fruit maturity when they are most vulnerable, in 2002
<br/>> has not regrown. If left alone they will eventually flop over and perish.
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<br/>> Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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