Why I Don’t Use Foliar Treatment (Roundup) on Bush Honeysuckle in the Forest

So being that it is mid-November, and most of the trees have lost their leaves, people might assume it would be fine to treat invasive bush honey-suckle with a foliar spray treatment. What they might not realize is they could be killing a large portion of seedlings just hiding in the leaf litter or under that bush they are spraying.

This video I try to point out examples of why I think that using spray treatment on the honeysuckle could be causing you wipe out the very regeneration you are trying to encourage to shade out the bush-honeysuckle. Not to mention the disruption in the soil ecology itself causing more harm then might be noticeable to the naked eye.

Whenever doing any kind of forest treatment, try to think of it as it being your own home, because there are a lot of critters there that live in the leaf litter or trees that eat the leaves, so when you spray the forest with chemicals you are spraying their home, beds, and dinner table with toxic chemicals that will harm them. I believe that with a shift in mindset to be focused on long term forest health, regenerative forestry will outperform the current method of forest TSI work in production, but also in overall forest health. Maybe this is something Joel Salatin in the new administration coming up will be able to run with and help change the way we do things for the better.