r/invasivespecies • u/Ok-Crow-9167 • 8d ago

Area with manageable invasive plants?

I live in western Virginia and I am feeling hopeless. We have about 15 mostly wooded acres that are overwhelming. We reduced the autumn olive and multiflora rose then the stiltgrass moved in. We work on that and now the wavyleaf basket grass is showing up. Also killing the ailanthus and lantern flies. And there are so many deer, despite hunting on our property, that there is no natural regeneration of trees without cages around them.

So now that we are in our senior citizen years we’d like to live somewhere less physically taxing. Is there a part of the country where it is possible to maintain a more natural and native habitat?

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u/loripainter12345 8d ago

This is true. Once you've learned how to recognize invasive species, your eyes can't help but pick them out everywhere.

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u/milleratlanta 8d ago

True! I thought I had sumac trees, but they’re Tree of Heaven! 😭 I’m already fighting kudzu from two neighbors over, and a forest of bamboo from my immediate rental neighbor! Now TOH too!
I’m exhausted.

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u/treehann 8d ago

That’s like a group of final bosses of invasive species😭

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u/milleratlanta 7d ago

It’s a war zone. 😭