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The bleached leaves look like sun scald. I grown a few hundred trees from seed each winter and always harden mine off VERY gradually over the course of a 2-3 weeks. I first bring them outside and place them in a protected area that gets no direct sunlight for about 10-14 days. Then, I move them...

Thanks for posting this article. It is a great read. I have had the exact same thoughts about lack of carcasses in areas with higher CWD numbers. I don't think there is really anything new added to the conversation, but the way it is framed will be helpful for having more meaningful discussions...

It is interesting how that is pulling such a high price/acre. They have even dropped it $700/acre from the original listing price!

Check out your county's assessor's office. You can also find this plat maps in the local library. Most of Missouri's can be found online, but they take some digging.

Anecdotally, this tracks with what we are seeing in our Northeast MO counties. Looking at old plat maps, the farm sizes haven't really changed much. I think our area is likely one of the more rural in the midwest, though. I am sure as you move closer to cities you will find more fragmentation...

Not to derail the conversation, but the only thing I would be nervous about other states copying from Iowa is the lack of non-resident tags for landowners. Admittedly, I'm sure you could add it to the list for what makes Iowa such a great state for deer hunting, but selfishly I wouldn't own land...

Yes. And there are two elastic bands and hooks that you can do to hold it up in place

Another vote for the M150. I think it is more comfortable than most ladder stands. Buy a couple of the collars if you know you will have a few different trees to set it up in but don't want or can't have a have a permanent ladder stand for that spot.

I think they are implying they lived in the same area with the same deer population. This is just a report that two guys who were deer hunters living in the same area and mostly ate deer meat both developed CJD, which is a prion associated disease just like CWD. I don't really think they're...

I'm not sure if you saw the recent report of two men dieing from CJD who also happened to have been consuming deer in a CWD area: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407 There is still no smoking gun for a causal link between CWD and CJD, but the people in the know seem to...

Looks like a spring bucket list! Were you on private or public ground?

This spring has been a dud so far. I have probably spent about 10-12 hours looking in creeks or in cultivated fields and have only found a few partials. https://giphy.com/gifs/ePvZyJsL7DMzQEmc6H Mort, do you have photos of all of your findings? It seems like you guys are amassing quite the...

If only the trail cam photo contest was still going on ... Amazing photo!

Would you mind sharing where you got the dolgo crabapple seedlings? I am going to be planting some next year.

They definitely need to communicate better with people when choosing a shipping date. I know last year if you chose the first or second week in April (I forget which one), it would actually arrive a week early depending on how you interpreted when the first or second week of a .month starts. I...