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"content": "## Black Locust can grow up to 170 ft tall\n## Grows 3-4 ft. per year\n## Native to North America\n## Cold hardy in zones 3 to 8 \n\n\n\n## Firewood\n\n- BLT wood, on a pound for pound basis is roughly half that of Anthracite Coal\n- Since its growth is fast, firewood can be plentiful\n\n## Timber\n\n\n\n- Rot resistant due to a naturally produced robinin in the wood\n\t- 100 year life span in full soil contact! (better than cedar performance)\n\t- Fence posts\n\t- Outdoor furniture\n\t- Outdoor decking\n- Sustainable due to its fast growth and spread\n\t- Can be coppiced (cut to the ground)\n\t- Can be pollarded (cut above ground)\n- Its dense wood makes durable tool handles, boxes (tool), and furniture\n\t- The wood is tougher than hickory, which is tougher than hard maple, which is tougher than oak.\n\t- A very low rate of expansion and contraction\n\t- Hardwood flooring\n\t- The highest tensile beam strength of any American tree\n- The wood is beautiful\n\n## Legume\n\n- Nitrogen fixer\n\t- Fixes the same amount of nitrogen per acre as is needed for 200-bushel/acre corn\n\t- Black walnuts inter-planted with locust as “nurse” trees were shown to rapidly increase their growth [[Clark, Paul M., and Robert D. Williams. (1978) Black walnut growth increased when interplanted with nitrogen-fixing shrubs and trees. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, vol. 88, pp. 88-91.]] \n\n## Bees\n\n\n\n- The edible flower clusters are also a top food source for honey bees\n\n## Shade Provider\n\n\n\n- Its light, airy overstory provides dappled shade\n\t- Planted on the west side of a garden it provides relief during the hottest part of the day\n\t- (nitrogen provider)\n\t- Planted on the west side of a house, its quick growth soon shades that side from the sun\n\n## Wind-break\n\n\n\n- Fast growth plus it's feathery foliage reduces wind for animals, crops, and shelters\n\n## Fodder\n\n- Over 20% crude protein\n- 4.1 kcal/g of energy\n- Baertsche, S.R, M.T. Yokoyama, and J.W. Hanover (1986) Short rotation, hardwood tree biomass as potential ruminant feed-chemical composition, nylon bag ruminal degradation and ensilement of selected species. J. Animal Sci. 63 2028-2043",
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