Peplin Creek
5 year old buck +
So I have pretty closely maxed out the food plot potential of our 80 acres which has led me to start thinking about other habitat improvements. Aside from hinge cutting, I want to add more defined bedding areas within typical bedding areas if that makes sense. The truth is I know pretty much nothing about trees other than what I search for on the web. I want to describe a couple of areas on my property and than I am please asking for people’s opinions on desired trees plants.
1.) I have talked about some of the poplar/aspen growth on my property already and plan to cut out pockets with in them for new growth. What I would like to do is plant a set of trees inside or around these pockets to encourage bedding and provide security. I am just not sure what exactly is best to put in.
2.) this location is creek bottom that gets a lot of sun. It’s current state is tag alders and grass that’s about waist to head high. but there is about a 5 acre section that is mostly just the grass and really too open for deer to constiently travel through from what I can tell. Soil is more moist in this area naturally because it’s low but not standing water or muddy. This is an area where I think if did this right and I could create a better bedding area and also a set of trees that connect one side of the property to the other acrossed this open area. Creating a soft funnel so to speak, it could be a really fantastic setup.
3). These last areas I am thinking about is a tree that grows in a somewhat dense canopy, if it even exsists. We have 2 areas. One being a hardwoods stand the other would be under mature giant pine trees. There is decent morning sun under the pines. Mostly dogwood and small oak trees grew back. It’s great in the summer time. I am thinking about smaller pine planting’s within it to encourage a place to bed/travel once the leafs are down in the fall. The hardwoods is pretty typical of what you would expect. Some shrubbery but you can pretty much see 80 yards in each direction. The goal there would be to thicken up areas to encourage movement in certain areas while leaving the majority of it alone.
1.) I have talked about some of the poplar/aspen growth on my property already and plan to cut out pockets with in them for new growth. What I would like to do is plant a set of trees inside or around these pockets to encourage bedding and provide security. I am just not sure what exactly is best to put in.
2.) this location is creek bottom that gets a lot of sun. It’s current state is tag alders and grass that’s about waist to head high. but there is about a 5 acre section that is mostly just the grass and really too open for deer to constiently travel through from what I can tell. Soil is more moist in this area naturally because it’s low but not standing water or muddy. This is an area where I think if did this right and I could create a better bedding area and also a set of trees that connect one side of the property to the other acrossed this open area. Creating a soft funnel so to speak, it could be a really fantastic setup.
3). These last areas I am thinking about is a tree that grows in a somewhat dense canopy, if it even exsists. We have 2 areas. One being a hardwoods stand the other would be under mature giant pine trees. There is decent morning sun under the pines. Mostly dogwood and small oak trees grew back. It’s great in the summer time. I am thinking about smaller pine planting’s within it to encourage a place to bed/travel once the leafs are down in the fall. The hardwoods is pretty typical of what you would expect. Some shrubbery but you can pretty much see 80 yards in each direction. The goal there would be to thicken up areas to encourage movement in certain areas while leaving the majority of it alone.