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Anyone here have experience with flame willow?? One of the local NRCS offices is selling bundles of 10 bareroots for $18. They 18-24". I am assuming I should cage them and put a weed mat and mulch on them. How do I get them to turn into one of these big red bushes??? Do I need to plant...

Over Christmas break I spent some time bud capping my trees. I came across 15-18 trees that had extremely bristled needles and were very STOUT for their size. They were unlike all of my other trees and I was a little puzzled. A few of these just got a weed mat last spring and the rest do not...

I would like to hunt elk, mule deer or whitetail deer in North Dakota, SD, Wyoming, MT, or ID, maybe Colorado. What is the EASIEST way for a non resident to go do a hunt?? I wouldn't mind hunting any of those animals in any of those states. I've been doing some research and the lotteries seem...

I see let's go Brandon inflation has hit the local NRCSs pretty good this year. Seeing some really big increases on tree price over just 2 years ago. Could get anything you wanted (bundle of 25) for $35 just two years. That ship has SAILED at most of the counties I checked out. One county...

The crab apple trees in the local towns are fully loaded with a lot of small apples. I chewed on a few. They are kind of dull and bitter. There are truckloads of fruit on some of these trees and its just starting to fall. Wondering what the experts think??

I want to buy 25 smaller seedlings and grow them in 1 gallon pots at my home. Who has experience doing this?? My neighbors let me take a couple seedlings growing under their ponderosa pines. I put them in 1 gallon pots and they seem to be doing ok. 2 of them look good and the other 2 are ok...

I have about 12 apple trees planted in my woods in 6 foot tubes from around 2012-2014. One of them has a few small green crabs on it again this year. Its time for me to give these things the premium treatment cause they have been severely neglected by me. I put some mulch on their weed mats...

They really work. 5 years ago I only had 1 pine tree of any sort on my land (we planted and caged it in 2012= year 1). Now I am approaching 200. I had 1 white cedar and now I am to 60 (they really thrive on my soil). I went from about 15 spruce trees to 700+. Not all of those have a...

Really starting to get the itch for a western hunt. I'm thinking about Idaho. Who has hunted deer or elk there and has advice for a MN flatlander?? I'd like to horseback into the mountains and then camp out there. Not opposed to paying some type of outfitter. What should a non resident...

I have started ordering some of my trees for next year. I got a few coming from U of Idaho, Itasca Greenhouse and the local NRCS. Gun season ended on 11/20 so I thought I would get an early start on 2023 tree planting. We have had about 6-8" of total snow accumulation in the last few weeks...

I officially have my first apples on my trees. My brother planted these trees approximately 8-10 years ago and this is the first time they've had fruit. I wanna say Siberian crab and manchurian crab. Also have some high bush cranberries that produced their first crop this year. I need to...

Took the family on a trip out west. We drove from MN through ND, MT and camped in Yellowstone for 4 nights and then 2 nights in Grand Teton. On the way home we spent 1 night in the bighorn mountains and 2 nights in Custer SD. We also snuck through the Teton pass to visit Idaho. I will never...

Supposed to go to Yellowstone next month. Sounds like the North loop and roads from Cooke City to Gardiner are a mess. Was hoping to come in on the Beartooth Highway through the Lamar Valley. Also lost our whitewater rafting trip. Still hoping to go. We have a campsite reserved in southern...

2022 crops are off to a tough start. Maybe 10% planted in my area (McLeod, Carver, Sibley, Wright county MN). I was able to get 2/3 of my soybeans planted. I pattern tiled some of my ground in 2016, and it paid off huge this year. I was able to go in and no till my best ground, and it should...

Taking a big trip out west this summer. Gonna be staying at Yellowstone for 4 days and Grand Teton National Park for 2 days. I have campsites reserved at both. Now I need to buy a tent. I want to fit 2 queen air mattresses in the tent. Any recommendations on a good tent?? I'm thinking...

Anyone have an experience with these trees?? Thinking of ordering some of these next year.

Shot my first bear last year on opening day in MN. Self guided hunt. First time bear hunting. Shot her in the Chippewa National Forrest. Had a great first experience. Really pleased with how my mount turned out and to get her back so quickly. Taxidermist says my bear was an old girl with...

I found this 5 part series on Youtube over the holidays. Absolutely marvelous series. Something to consider for you habitat managers in MN. I am returning white pine to my woods in the Chippewa National Forest. Gonna do whatever it takes to leave 100+ white pine trees for future generations...

No sense keeping everyone in suspense since I'm posting in successful hunts forum.... I will have several post to follow over the next few days. Had an AWESOME experience for one memorable self guided hunt. I harvested this dry old sow. Her teeth were really ground down. Not much left of them.

I was up north last week. Wildfire smoke from Canada was thick and putrid. Had a severe storm roll through and got to see some serious rotation at about 1/2 mile. Never made it to the ground, but whipped the tree tops back and forth for a few seconds before retreating into the sky. I got out...