Originally Posted By: Remington270
Originally Posted By: ALFisher
Sawtooth are an invasive species and should not be planted in Alabama. Other native oaks are just as good, if not better.


I agree they're non-native, but why shouldn't they be planted? They're hardly invasive.


My point is what others have found - we don't fully know the effects yet, and there are other better species for deer. As the fella from AWF said, everyone thought privet was going to be great too. This is possibly his best statement:

“Where native mast producers can be managed, they should not be replaced with sawtooth.” This assertion calls attention to the flaws in management practices that permit replacement of native species with exotics, and suggests that natural resource managers should consider the underlying problems of land use that eliminated native oaks and not establish sawtooth oaks in their place.

https://www.qdma.com/4-qdm-lessons-learned-sawtooth-oaks/

https://www.alabamawildlife.org/uploadedFiles/File/sawtoothWinter13.pdf