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I've been all over our 80 acres of hardwood forest... have yet to find a morel this year. But... I did score some nice Chicken of the Woods yesterday. I think this one is Laetiporus cincinnatus.

If you're a quadriped and have to lose a leg, a rear is best... 60% of body weight is borne on the front limbs... there's a lot less stress on joints if they're only missing a rear.

I planted a couple hundred sawtooth acorns 25 yrs ago... sold the resulting seedlings to a friend to plant out for deer/turkeys... I have no idea how they did for them. I ended up with about 4 trees in the nursery rows that must have been so small that I missed them. I suppose they produced a...

IDK if deer will eat hardshell hickory nuts, like mockernut/pignut, shagbark or shellbark - I've never witnessed them eating them, or found any in rumen contents - but I can assure you that they will - and do - eat pecans at any opportunity.

Bitternut is Nature's ultimate practical joke - thin shell... as thin as some pecans, high kernel percentage, many crack out intact halves... but most are so astringent that even the squirrels won't touch them until everything else is gone. But... every once in a while, we run across one that...

Depending upon your desired consistency, you can cook the syrup shorter or longer; I like mine thicker than most store-bought maple-flavored syrups. If you go above the 1.5 C. sugar per cup of 'liquor', it tends to crystallize out - and not sludgy crystallization like honey - I'm talking big...

Mockernut... from a 'game' standpoint, are mostly only gonna feed squirrels and mice. I suppose bears might eat them, but we don't have them here. I have no idea what value they have, from a timber harvest standpoint. You can make 'hickory syrup' from the mockernut nuts (and toss in a few...

Mockernut hickory, for sure. That sort of 'diamond' ridged bark is typical and the brown nut & husk clinch the ID. Shellbark has 'shaggy' bark, similar to shagbark, though often a bit less 'shaggy'. Shagbark nuts are usually white/light brown, shellbark nuts are brown, and typically thicker...

Early on, my dad was crazy about building blinds WAY UP in the trees... had at least two that were 30-40 ft up in the air. Thankfully, he later realized that 8 ft up on posts was just fine. One of his high stands, built in the crotch of a big, old water oak, had a trap-door entry in the...

I've seen reports of sapsuckers severely damaging or even killing trees... but I've never seen it. See apples & pecans that are heavily peppered with holes, but never noticed it having a negative impact on productivity.

It's a 'clean palette' to start 'building' the habitats that you want! Adjoining your current property is a big plus, in my book.

"If you want the new trees to produce the same way as the parent tree, you'll have to graft them onto rootstock." Not so. If you can get pear cuttings to root - and some root quite readily, while others do not - the resulting tree will be every bit the 'clone' of the original that a graft on...

Yeah, well, they sure screwed the pooch on that one, didn't they? https://cban.ca/ge-american-chestnut-performance-failures/

During summer, our dog will swim in the pond or creek multiple times a day; winter, she holds that down to once or twice a day. Topicals and collars(Seresto) are short-lived in that sort of situation. Bravecto is our go-to.

You have to do your own due diligence... sometimes unscrupulous or just downright ignorant 'breeders' will advertise pups as 'having had all their shots'. Well, depending upon the age of the pup, they may have had all they need - up to that point in time. An 8 wk old pup will have just started...

Veterinarian (retired) here. Rabies vaccination is a must. In reality, we don't vaccinate the dogs to 'protect' them... we do it to use them as a 'barrier' between the human population and the wildlife reservoir of rabies virus. Most state public health regulations will recommend euthanasia...

More verification of 'Sailer's Law'.

'Winter Banana' apple variety has long been known to be reasonably graft-compatible, long-term, with a number of pear cultivars. Placing an interstem of WB on an apple rootstock - or even on individual branches - can allow you to graft on pear scions and have reasonable success. Likewise...

I grew up within 10-15 miles of The Wildlife Group's place, in east-central AL, near the Lee/Macon county line. Guarantee you stuff will be breaking dormancy down there before long, so unless they have a cold-storage facility, anything they're digging from Feb 1 on will be getting close...

Tractor hydraulic fluid is comparable to 10W-30 motor oil, with regard to viscosity. I'd use 30 W in a pinch, but prefer a product formulated for bar/chain lubrication.