On May 27, 11:28*pm, Digital Larry wrote:
In the aftermath of a 4,000 acre fire that spent the last week
scorching through the local mountains

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I thought I'd do a bit more thinning out of primarily bay laurel on
the back hill. *Now I've already cut down quite a few trees over the
years and they take their sweet time turning back to the soils and
nutrients from which they originated. *I figured keeping them wet and
close together near the ground would help. *Any other helpful
suggestions?

get that stuff they sell for making stumps rot. it's in home depot,
lowes, etc. you drill a bunch of holes in the wood and pack in the
stuff and wet it down for a while. It eats the lignin out of the wood,
leaving only the cellulose; the wood becomes spongy and basically
turns into cardboard.