Neat. What are you hoping to see now that you've got these installed?
That's my place exactly. Too wet to travel before June 15th or keep winter cereals alive in spring. Not wet enough to hold water into late summer and fall unless I get big rains. I started moving dirt last year, and didn't even realize I had created a vernal pool. It may be a tad bit deep for ideal design, but I imagine it'll still dry out eventually.Two things. First, is whitetail habitat improvement. Second, is wetlands improvement.
That whole area was relatively non-descript. It would almost all be wet in the late fall, winter and spring and then could all be dry come late summer. So, I used the dredged soils to build mounds throughout the area that will stay dry year round and also provide prime raised bedding areas for deer. Also, by deepening existing pools and creating new ones I will now have a lot more quality pools when it is wet and a handful of small pools that will likely hold at least some water year round.
It may be a tad bit deep for ideal design, but I imagine it'll still dry out eventually.
That's my place exactly. Too wet to travel before June 15th or keep winter cereals alive in spring. Not wet enough to hold water into late summer and fall unless I get big rains. I started moving dirt last year, and didn't even realize I had created a vernal pool. It may be a tad bit deep for ideal design, but I imagine it'll still dry out eventually.
I just wanted a water hole next to my plot. Then my buddy talked me into using the dirt to raise up and expand my plot where it was low and covered in brush. Knocked out about 3 things and a bonus with 1 project.
Water hole
Fixed low spot in trail
Expanded food plot
Extra credit: frog and shrimp habitat. I get a bunch of ducks in my place in the spring. I'd imagine these would help them find stuff to eat as well?
Be careful looking for rare things and declaring areas wetlands
Be careful looking for rare things and declaring areas wetlands it can come back and bite you.
I had a area they wanted to test and it was in a farm field so if they would have declared I would have had to quit farming it.