It's all over and readily available and easy to grab and makes for good sticks for blocking in a cable restraint for Bobcat trapping. Of course I'm talking about using the tiny young Buckthorn or small branches, so long as it's legal size for our entanglement rules.

I honestly can this is the first time I’ve ever heard someone say something good about buckthorn.

I don’t know what buckthorn is but it doesn’t sound fun. I tend to use more forgiving brush, like sagebrush and willow

Alder buckthorn?

It makes the best charcoal for black powder that you can get.

Mike

Makes great firewood if it's large though very hard on a saw. It looks cool when carved into spoons or such

Grey Fox love buck thorne for habitat
in which to escape from the cayutes.

They thrive on the fruit (berries)
for food in the fall.

We are overgrown with buck thorne
here in Jefferson County in Northern NY
and we are over run with grey fox.

Don't think we have that down here

But we have plenty of other stuff with stickers
Honey locust, black locust, tickle tongue/pricklyash etc

lots of good things to say about thorn, thats why it was brought here as ornamental shrub/privacy fencing and planted in yards everywhere, Lots of bad things to say about it as well.

Oh I hate buckthorn, trust me. It's destroying Wi forests.

One other use for it that I've seen is it makes great walking sticks.

Yeah…if everyone had a buckthorn walking stick, Wisconsin woods would be safe! I hope I live to see a non invaded forest!

I cut one large buckthorn that was big enough for me to slice it up for some small boards.
It has some red in it, I'm thinking of making a small valet box.

Unfortunately the vast majority of buckthorn in my place is about pencil dia.

Come on down south and I'll introduce you to the Buckthorn's progeny called buckbrush.

Roller chopper dudes and dudettes have endless contracts using these....

In Wisconsin we have Buckthorn that is classified as European, also called Carolina, it is not good for wildlife or forests. It's allelopathic and produces compounds that prevent anything other than itself from growing- including beneficial plants. The fruit berries are a laxative to birds and other wildlife, spreading at a rapid rate through this dispersal, the leaf browse has no nutrional value- big time bad news.

Aphids also prefer to overwinter in buckthorn

If you can find sections straight enough, buckthorn wood is very good for wood bows. Oftentimes they need spliced at the handle, far easier to get straight billets (40 inch pieces) versus a 65 inch plus piece.

I don't dispute the bad news part but I have noticed that deer will browse the smaller shoots occasionally.

If you can find some of decent diameter it is beautiful if turned on a lathe


WS

Well said.
It's getting so much worse- rapidly each year- I often seriously wonder what's going to happen with Wisconsin's forests.

What is that thing? Looks like a high end planter?

It looks like it munches everything, even some roots