VALUE AND USE
SPECIES: Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory 



WOOD PRODUCTS VALUE : 
Nearly 80 percent of harvested mockernut hickory is used to manufacture
tool handles, for which its hardness, toughness, stiffness, and strength
make it especially suitable.  Other uses include agricultural
implements, dowels, gymnasium equipment, poles, and furniture.
Mockernut hickory is also used for lumber, pulpwood, charcoal, and
fuelwood [25,29].


IMPORTANCE TO LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE : 
Mockernuts are preferred mast for wildlife, especially squirrels.  Black
bears, foxes, beavers, and white-footed mice feed on the nuts, and
sometimes the bark.  White-tailed deer browse the foliage, twigs and
nuts.  Mockernuts are a minor source of food for ducks, quail, and
turkey [28].


PALATABILITY : 
NO-ENTRY


NUTRITIONAL VALUE : 
NO-ENTRY


COVER VALUE : 
Mockernut hickory provides cavity-nesting sites for a variety of birds
in the Missouri oak-hickory forest [2,7,27].


VALUE FOR REHABILITATION OF DISTURBED SITES : 
The deep lateral roots of mockernut hickory make it a valuable species
for watershed protection [25].


OTHER USES AND VALUES : 
Mockernut hickory sawdust and chips are often used commercially to smoke
meats.  Although mockernut kernels are edible, because of their size
they are rarely eaten by humans [25,28].


MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : 
Mockernut hickory seedling establishment is difficult due to seed
predation.  Infrequent bumper crops produce some seed, but seedling
survival is poor under a dense canopy.  Clearcutting results in new
sapling stands when advanced regeneration is present.  Without advanced
regeneration, clearcutting eliminates mockernut hickory except for stump
sprouting [22,28].

Related categories for Species: Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory