To compare sawtooths to chinese privet is such a ludicrous comparison that whoever wrote it should have all their credentials pulled and given a dibble and made to plant trees for a living. Gobbler, that ain't your name on that article, is it?

I haven't read the article, but there is already plenty of good info in this thread. There is a 0% chance of sawtooths becoming an invasive species of any significance in AL. I've got some that are 20 years old and 15' tall because they don't get enough sun. Others are 60' tall and produce a bunch of acorns every year. The bad thing is they bear too early and usually are all gone before even bow season comes in. There have been a few years when I got to hunt around them the first week of bow season; this year every last one of them was gone before Oct. 15.

Sawtooths are no danger to a property, but I wish I had planted mostly white oaks instead. I'd have oaks that were producing lots of acorns by now, and they would stay on the trees til hunting season. If all you wanta do is feed deer, then sawtooths will work. If you want something to hunt around, go with something else.