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To: AugustWest who wrote (640)	6/1/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Annette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3496

Jack Pines for fence posts? Hybrid Poplars? I hear they shoot suckers out and they NEVER die.... cut em down and they grow back!!!! LOL I read this on hybridpoplar.com You know what I heard is nasty? Kudzu vines!

To: AugustWest who wrote (640)	6/1/1999 9:59:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Re: Fence posts Check out this link... Nebraska Ag extension publication on Native trees for fence posts. Osage-orange gets a high rating, along with Black Locust. We have a ton of those at the back of our farm. Beautiful but very miserable things... Tall with an interesting canopy like an acacia, but the trees have thorns like GIANT rose thorns growing out of the trunks... some are 3 or 4 inches long and you could impale your hand on them. The "younguns" are truly evil... they have flexible weeping branches which are decorated with thorns...they resemble razor-wire more than just about anything else. The wood of the locust is just about like iron. One thing they ARE good for is keeping trespassers from coming into the back forty... you CANNOT walk through a grove of the young ones... (-: Here's the link. Interesting comparison chart of the "lifespan" of different woods used as fence posts. In our area, everyone uses cedar. ianrwww.unl.edu