NC State research on Sycamore Coppice

Glad to see the University doing some work on coppice.  I would like to see some more diversity, and I haven’t found sycamore to be as palatable for fodder as tulip poplar or red maple if one was looking into dual purpose trees, but interesting none the less, especially the nutrient recovery and soil improvement aspects.

https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/coppiced-american-sycamore-on-marginal-land-as-a-viable-short-rotation-woody-crop

I’ll second the red maple for uses with chickens. I put down bedding of mulched red maple leaves and Japanese maple leaves, in coop for chickens. They seem to have almost eaten the 2 trash can full of which. For not having free range their yolks are dark, I’ve already planted an area with red maples and Amur maples, will probably continue that fashion, due to increased interest with chicken consumption for I guess fiber, and I simply like maples. Haven’t seen them eat the few oak leaves in coop, unless it was already made into charcoal. Would love to some day have enough, to continually have mulched maple leaves as bedding, that probably increases quality of egg produced.