Herbicide treatments are another great technique to manage forests and timber stands. We use herbicides for buckthorn, vine, boxelder and other invasive species. Herbicides can also be use to control grass and weeds. Bay Area Land Management offers basal-bark treatments for woody vegetation. This uses a crop oil mixed in with a herbicide and then applied to the bottoms of the invasive species and letting it absorb into the bark. We use a backpack style spot spraying technique for this application. Another method is a hack and squirt technique. This involves cutting into the tree and spraying the herbicide. Lastly, we also use a technique know as cut-stump method. This is more for larger trees that you would cut the tree down and then spray the stump. This helps prevent resprouting by killing the root structure.
