What's the best way to rid a lake (27 year old condo property) waterline of a tree-weed species?...

Eric Schreiber wrote:
paul anderson wrote:


In my past the best way to get rid of any tree is to drill a hole in
the trunk kind of low and insert some thick copper wire in several
places. This always works for me. I just took out a 30 foot locust
tree in 2 mionths like this.


How does that work? Does the copper poison the tree?

Copper is pretty toxic - which is why it is used in aquaria to kill
parasites. It'll kill most invertebrate life - go over to
rec.aquaria.marine.reefs if you want an earful on the hazards of copper.
(Some people think that if you've ever treated a tank with a copper
based medicine, everything in that tank is rendered permanently
unsuitable for use in an invertebrate (reef) system.)

You might be able to get some good advice from you're local agricultural
extension office. They're usually affiliated with land grant
universities with agriculture programs.

Stacy wrote:
It's a small batch Alder trees that once established they just go wild and,
considered more like a weed in the Norhwest.

Is there a product on the market where I could snip them young and rub
something on the cut area and have it affect ***only*** its own root system?

Is there a spike of some sort that can be tapped into the trunk that would
take it (only it) out?

Thanks for any tips or help...

As for the round action, a series of holes around the tree exercise, injection round, or like I made some huge pine trees, drill a hole in the series blackBerry circular base and get some poison, mixed a bottle of poison with a liter of kerosene. An injection of about 20 mill to each hole.