Habitat 2021Resolutions/Plans
- Thread starter TreeDaddy
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Edge feather my big plot.
Make a couple small staging/kill plots back in the woods.
Clear some shooting lanes at a couple of my stands.
Frost seed a small plot with clover and let it go
Open up some south facing hillside to get some woody browse in an area that doesn't have much cover.
Make a couple small staging/kill plots back in the woods.
Clear some shooting lanes at a couple of my stands.
Frost seed a small plot with clover and let it go
Open up some south facing hillside to get some woody browse in an area that doesn't have much cover.
hillrunner
5 year old buck +
I stuck a few hundred willow cuttings cut from my own trees in the ground a few weeks back. I'd say I have around 95% success at this point and a few more of those will still sprout I think. With adequate moisture, they'll be 5-8 ft tall this summer. 
Cheap and easy screening.
Cheap and easy screening.
IkemanTx
5 year old buck +
2021 farm goals:
1.) Plant 2 acres of summer deer plot and 2 acres of a dove plot this week. (Completed this week)
2.) Have the county biologist walk the property with us and give recommendations for steps towards prairie restoration.
3.) Identify as many grass and corn species in remnant prairie.
4.) Transition the summer deer plot to a fall plot 1st week of September.
5.) Clear and mow fire breaks (on the 13 acre burn unit) so they can be completed February 2022.
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1.) Plant 2 acres of summer deer plot and 2 acres of a dove plot this week. (Completed this week)
2.) Have the county biologist walk the property with us and give recommendations for steps towards prairie restoration.
3.) Identify as many grass and corn species in remnant prairie.
4.) Transition the summer deer plot to a fall plot 1st week of September.
5.) Clear and mow fire breaks (on the 13 acre burn unit) so they can be completed February 2022.
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My list evolves and changes daily. But making big improvements. When I got the place, the soil test come back at less than 4. PH Is at 6.3 now. Had 48 ton of lime spread a few weeks back. Fertilizers are down and disced in. Just waiting on a few dry days in a row to get the corn and beans in for the deer. About 10 acres total. Will have 5 acres of brassicas put in come August. Have walked the property once with a forester. Hes coming back next week to mark trees and develop out the full plan for the sanctuaries we'll be out. Dove plots are planted and ready already as well. 32 pines planted also. Remaining list would include:
1. Planting another 50 pines
2. Continue growing the fruit orchard with another 12 trees to go in this year.
3. Build up minnow and stocking of pond
4. 2 sanctuaries built and ready
5. Pheasant brooding house and fly pen built out with vegetation planted and established.
6. Burn off, till and prep all areas for spring planting of switchgrass
About covers it for now I think.
1. Planting another 50 pines
2. Continue growing the fruit orchard with another 12 trees to go in this year.
3. Build up minnow and stocking of pond
4. 2 sanctuaries built and ready
5. Pheasant brooding house and fly pen built out with vegetation planted and established.
6. Burn off, till and prep all areas for spring planting of switchgrass
About covers it for now I think.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
1. Establish strips of deer forage in the existing hay fields.
2. Establish test plots of deer forage in the wilderness terrain.
3. Graft a few Dolgo trees for myself and deer.
4. Get some fencing around my Astrakan trees that got attacked by deer this winter, and prune away the damaged branches.
5. Propagate and plant out a few dozen deer browse trees: rowan, elder, willow, etc.
6. Start a few spreadsheets/journals to keep track of my work and the results.
2. Establish test plots of deer forage in the wilderness terrain.
3. Graft a few Dolgo trees for myself and deer.
4. Get some fencing around my Astrakan trees that got attacked by deer this winter, and prune away the damaged branches.
5. Propagate and plant out a few dozen deer browse trees: rowan, elder, willow, etc.
6. Start a few spreadsheets/journals to keep track of my work and the results.
chummer
5 year old buck +
You going to take those shooting lanes out to 30 yards? I have a pole chainsaw if you want to get crazy.
Chainsaw
5 year old buck +
There were two mature bucks caught on cameras in apple tree stands that were not otherwise seen all season nor did the cameras catch them in any food plots day or night. I'm hoping they must cruise the woods bordering the plots and a few shooting lanes cutting through those woods would give us additional sightings and maybe a shot at one of them.
DavidHunter2001
5 year old buck +
Planted a few hundred willows 2 years ago. Lost most of them to a bad drought. Decided to use Miscanthus instead and that worked great so far. Planted the Miscanthus last spring. Looks like 99% survival. Had a real bad frost in late April after the new chutes were a few inches above the ground. It killed the top couple inches but it just kept coming up.
Derek Reese 29
5 year old buck +
I think MG is going to be a backup if the willows don't take, but it would have to survive in a very wet environment and I dont think that would work well....so far all of my little willows have leaves and are starting to grow...but I am in North Central PA and it has been cold and dry...not exactly a good recipe for willow growth
