Hey everyone,
Thought I'd share this video I did the other day, its a breakdown (or land tour if you will) of my property and the habitat improvement plan I now have for it. My property in a nutshell:
21 acres in SW Michigan. You can pretty much consider my entire property a swamp, however its broken up into 3 "segments" if you will: flooded timber, "higher ground" and a creek system/caittail marsh. My higher ground, which is my main area to work/hunt within, its around 8-8.5 acres out of my 21. The driest stuff on my higher ground is a closed canopy, lots of swamp maple stacked close together. Other areas that get more sunlight are a little wetter with a lot of dead ash trees and big clumps of grass. Hopefully the photos in this video paint a good picture, otherwise I can post more images on here.
I worked with Ty Miller from Small Acre Hunting to put this plan together, we shared many of the same ideas for how to optimize this property, but he definitely put together other things or aspects of it that I wouldn't have done on my own. Let me know what you think, I always welcome constructive criticism! I'm going to try to make many more videos of everything I'm doing out there while executing this plan, I'll add those to this thread as I make 'em!
-Matt
Thought I'd share this video I did the other day, its a breakdown (or land tour if you will) of my property and the habitat improvement plan I now have for it. My property in a nutshell:
21 acres in SW Michigan. You can pretty much consider my entire property a swamp, however its broken up into 3 "segments" if you will: flooded timber, "higher ground" and a creek system/caittail marsh. My higher ground, which is my main area to work/hunt within, its around 8-8.5 acres out of my 21. The driest stuff on my higher ground is a closed canopy, lots of swamp maple stacked close together. Other areas that get more sunlight are a little wetter with a lot of dead ash trees and big clumps of grass. Hopefully the photos in this video paint a good picture, otherwise I can post more images on here.
I worked with Ty Miller from Small Acre Hunting to put this plan together, we shared many of the same ideas for how to optimize this property, but he definitely put together other things or aspects of it that I wouldn't have done on my own. Let me know what you think, I always welcome constructive criticism! I'm going to try to make many more videos of everything I'm doing out there while executing this plan, I'll add those to this thread as I make 'em!
-Matt