The back is protesting a little this morning...

(Yer only as young as yer back, Bobz...)

Nevermind, I'll be okay...

As for large oaks... Once you see that they are sick they are sick... Small plants are alot more treatable than towering ones...
The problem with dense woods is that with the draught there isn't enough water to support all the trees... There might be enough to support half of them but not all... I have about 4 acreas like that and I have slowly been thinning it out... It will still be woods but I'm taking the weedier of the trees out, like the locusts and maples and poplars and persimmon... I'm going to have to take out a couple oaks as well because they are competing with others... Fortunately for me, I have a good hillbilly buddy who was born with a chainsaw in his little hands and he sells firewood so he's taking them out (with my help) for free...

B~