Benjamin Siebold

Thank you for the advice!!  Very helpful...

I have a roughly 2 acre pond with a slough of overflow point and it has a a ravine type shape but it’s more smooth and I would love to use the area to create a habitat for critters that visit the pond and further benefit the wildlife of my property and the surrounding area!  Great herrins, raccoons, frogs and other critters visit the pond and I’d love to store the run off into the ground rather than it run off.  It looks like it was a nice habitat at one time but do to water run off and succession of the landscape it looks like this....

I have a roughly 2 acre pond with a slough of overflow point and it has a a ravine type shape but it’s more smooth and I would love to use the area to create a habitat for critters that visit the pond and further benefit the wildlife of my property and the surrounding area!  Great herrins, raccoons, frogs and other critters visit the pond and I’d love to store the run off into the ground rather than it run off.  I would love some suggestions on doing so !😁

Thank you for the welcome and for the advice!  I am looking for good forest diversity and cover including canopy possibly... within 5-10 years.  I have most of what you named currently in the woods and the surrounding areas.  My forest is mostly hack berry and oak dominated along with elm... it also has one or two pecans mixed in along with plenty of mule berry. There’s lots others that I probably haven’t discovered in there as well....  I was figuring I either clone out those treees through propagation of branches and so on and fill in the gaps of the forest using a mosaic type method? And fill in the gaps with native bushes and ground covers.  The forest holds a decent amount of moisture and has a lot of fungi pop up during times of rain.  But I’m interested in pushing the forest further out by planting more trees etc.  also i am quite interested in water catchment and getting my forest and ground to hold more.  

My family has property about 20 minutes outside of the witchita mountains of Oklahoma,  zone 6b-7a.  I am curious about native trees bushes, etc... that I can incorporate in my existing couple acres of woodland and also my future planting of trees in an open section of the woodland, a lot of the trees are standing dead I not here place and the forest needs young life! I need suggestions please!  I am interested in any plant that serves a purpose in helping the forest whether it it be for critters or for humans as well, nitrogen fixing etc.

My family has property about 20 minutes outside of the witchita mountains of Oklahoma,  zone 6b-7a.  I am curious about native trees bushes, etc... that I can incorporate in my existing couple acres of woodland and also my future planting of trees in an open section of the woodland, a lot of the trees are standing dead I not here place and the forest needs young life! I need suggestions please!  I am interested in any tree that serves a purpose in helping the forest whether it it be for critters or for humans as well, nitrogen fixing etc.