I’ve been out of town for a few weeks, and now it’s getting cold, wet, and dark. In one of my larger stands of alder and salmonberry that gets the best spring and summer sun, I started coppicing tall (~6ft+) shrubs of salmonberry and osoberry, and some alder saplings. I’m getting it on the ground and decomposing now. In the spring, it’ll be less competition for sunlight. TBD on what to do with the sword and bracken fern.