Chappell, Andrew ; Brewer, Nancy ; Windell, Keith . 2009. Attachment To Improve Tamarisk Removal. 0922 2829P. Missoula, MT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, National Technology and Development Program.
Tamarisk (also known as saltcedar) is an invasive tree that consumes a great deal of water, transpiring up to 300 gallons of water a day from the soil to the atmosphere. Land managers throughout the Midwest and West are trying to remove tamarisk. The Forest Service's Cimarron National Grassland in Kansas removes tamarisk by cutting it at the ground level with a brush saw mounted on a skid steer loader. Herbicide was used to kill tamarisk that sprouts from the stump the next year. The Missoula Technology and Development Center helped employees at the grassland test a new alternative for removing tamarisk—the JAWZ attachment by Starhill Solutions, Inc.—that was used to pull clumps of tamarisk from moist ground. When tamarisk was pulled from the ground, less herbicide was needed the following year because sprouting was much less of a problem. Pulling tamarisk and treating the sprouts the following year cost 13 percent more than cutting tamarisk and treating the sprouts.
Keywords: herbicides, invasive plants, skid steers
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