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holes deep enough so you are just above the standing watertable. Do not dig into the watertable. <br />Ideally you want the root mass of the clump to be in the saturated moisture zone and not in the <br />standing water zone. Dig a hole that is close to the diameter of the clumps. You want to have at least 4- <br />5 feet of the willow stems sticking out of the ground when you are finished planting the clump. <br />VFW <br />• Pull the clumps off the trailer with a thumb on the backhoe or with the front-end bucket and drop them <br />in the holes. Fill in the hole with soil and water. Muddy -in the willow clump s so there are no air <br />pockets around the root mass. <br />• The last step is to take a set of loppers and cut off about one third to one half of the willow tops <br />straight across. This decreases the amount of stem that the reduced root mass will have to support. It <br />also stimulates a dense regrowth of stems and leaves that will speed up the photosynthesis process to <br />grow additional roots, stems, and leaves and store energy in the root mass. <br />• Spacing between the willow clumps should be about 6-15 feet. This depends on the critical streamflow <br />energy you are trying to protect against. If your harvest site does not have enough willows, change to <br />a wider spacing. However, the wider the spacing, the more the potential stream energy can impact the <br />bank area you are trying to protect. <br />4 <br />