Recent content by JP14

Wow, I'll pass on that. We had a few winters about 15yrs ago with 110+". I've hated winter since than. We do experience some migration sometimes during rifle season, so I want to slow that but not risk trapping them. They are a survivor species but everything has limits. It's a crazy game...

The area I'm at is in NE SD. Rolling hills in the prairie pothole region. Lots of sloughs and lakes but not always much for trees. We've experienced years with greater than 85" of snow. I've located about 10 different areas that I'd like to do improvements on. Some is currently pasture land...

If starting from a blank slate and evaluating potential areas to create habitat, does anyone consider snow depth before and after. For example do you consider the potential depth of snow in a future winter food plot area. Is there consideration in snow depth in likely path to and from winter...

Thanks for the input Sconnie.

Live in the Black Hills. Habitat work and hunt in NE SD.

I live in the Black Hills. Harvested them from an area where a white house Christmas tree was taken from back in the 70's, by Nemo SD.

Me and the kids took a walk in the woods today to collect some cones. I've never harvested cones before but I'm hoping to get some seeds from these. My identification skills are a little weak, but should be BH spruce. Tomorrow going for some acorns.

I am planning to plant about 1000 evergreens of different varieties in many different locations. Most of these plantings will be for pockets of evergreens but some in a more block format. To plant such numbers seems overwhelming. Therefore I'm considering the option of using plugs. Can you...

This looks a great addition. And it's definitely going on my list. Sounds like they need some good protection for quite a few years. These sound like they can be planted around apple trees without worry about cedar apple rust is that correct?

I am not familiar with dog funnel, but I'm glad I dont have to deal with it. But the way that it outcompetes the other plants sorta reminds me of what I deal with in burdock and ragweed in one of my plots. I dont mind the ragweed so much, but the burdock is a different story. I know the burdock...

Hi everyone, mine name is Jared, JP14. I'm novice on habitat improvements but I've been following forums for years. I don't own any property but the family farm has areas in which improvements can be made. Most in my family are new to archery hunting over the past 6yrs. Prior to that it was...

Any specific variety of mulberry? This area of SD traditionally gets a good amount of moisture year round and the water table in most places isnt down that far.

There are some wet areas with rushes. Our winters can get pretty brutal for a week or longer, but its worth a try. In my low wet areas i was thinking on using sandbar willows, golden willow, and quaking aspen. My thinking with the use of these is they can be started with cuttings easily, so...

Im looking at doing conifer patches of 15-25 trees for doe families and isolated 2-3 conifers for bucks. Around these patches i was thinking about using shrubs not readily browsed to aid in protection and isolation, so more dense thicket forming shrubs. Im not sure if this would be effective...

The deer numbers are pretty moderate so my goal was for a large increase in numbers and variety of browse as we have some of the major sources but not necessarily the additional sources to maintain. The deer usually migrate out of our area once the snow comes so at this point im not too overly...