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Apparently a renovation at the Smithsonian, which is also on the National Mall, was going to cost around $2 Billion before it was shelved. I am sure adding in the fact it is mostly below ground in a swamp and all of the federal regulations for federal buildings post 9/11 isn't helping. A golf...

Bill Winke has a few videos on them. I think if you time them right when they get planted, you can have them fill in thin areas of your plots.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/venezuela-maduro-ai-videos-images-trump-misinformation-b2895344.html https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-shows-venezuela-election-protest-not-reaction-maduros-capture-2026-01-07/ The people still in Venezuela are not the same Venezuelans...

Has anyone bailed and covered an alfalfa bail from their plot with the plans of feeding deer after the season? For the larger plots there might be enough to get a bail that could be clutch as a protein source after the season. I would think you would need to harvest it dry and keep it dry, but I...

How have their been too many houses built?? We are still short something like 4.7 million homes.

Exactly what I was considering as well. Maybe a few with painters tape just in case that works a little better.

I use the 6 ft orange fiberglass reflective stakes for 5 ft Miracle Tubes. They are very cheap ($108 for 100) and easy to install. One of the downsides is that deer or racoons can pull the tubes up off the stakes.

I have planted somewhere over 1000 tubes. Their failure rate is definitely higher than with cages. I am still using tubes for some tree species because the ease of installing them in the field is still worth it. If my property was largely established and I was only planting 10-20 trees per year...

Related to Bill's and others comments about what CWD mortality would look like without hunting pressure, I have been trying to dig into the literature. Most of this research has taken place in captive deer herds. The problem with these studies is that captive deer have something like 20 times...

Is anyone aware of any research that tracked deer herd reductions in captive or fenced deer herds as a result of CWD? The screenshot below is from a review paper on captive deer herds and transmission of CWD. It looks like there are different variants to the prions that cause CWD: At least...

The side note is relevant for exactly the reasons Bill has been pointing out - not including the effect of hunting on lowering deer numbers is not telling the whole picture. If it wasn't relevant the Reviewers or the Editor for the Journal would have asked them not to include it. The reviewing...

Are there not any CWD Metric is the standard unit in peer-reviewed literature.

Just wanted to throw it out there for those in the area that there is a grafting class offered by University of Minnesota. It is somewhat pricey ($70 for non-arboretum members), but might interesting. Apparently you will get to take a few of the grafts home. Saturday, January 31st from...

There is another thread on this with some folks having first hand experience: https://habitat-talk.com/threads/gardepro-r3-pro-and-wifi-hub.18410/

Soil pH being an important consideration isn't just for tonnage, but weed competition too. More weed competition = shorter alfalfa plot life span. We have one plot that is below an old gravel quarry. The pH is 7.9 and alfalfa does better than even the clover there. Most of our other plots are...