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Today I took time to "enjoy the natural harvest" from one of three large mulberry trees on the property. Two are ancient trees in the winter of life, while one is mature, but not as old.

Time to spray the beans I drilled into the old field edges and near the pond. The plots were prepared with two rounds of herbicide. I should have done a burn in February or April, but ran out of time. I was disappointed to see fescue, honeysuckle and sumac appearing in the plots as the beans...

Killing them slowly is likely in reference to the fact that critters such as possums and raccoons can not be trapped and relocated. Almost every attempt to do so outside of a controlled relocation results in the slow death of the animal by starvation or predation. This is from a university...

Thanks. As I reviewed 2023 and 2024 pictures, the only chance I see for getting Eleven is during early season (Mid-Sept) from the row crops on our property to bedding on the neighbors. About every third day he shows up during the earliest possible shooting light. A ground blind might work if put...

Sounds like a productive season. Nice work.

This thread continues a three year tradition of attempting to forecast the upcoming deer season. This is the 8th season on our property, and the doe/buck ratio seems to be much better. So far, all the does are dropping single fawns. The coyotes are out in number. Two target deer survived, and...

For unto us a fawn is born…

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My average daytime pix is .5mb and .3mb on the L cameras. J cameras are about the same. I agree, you should be getting 2000 pictures.

RGrizzzz, I’ve run into similar situations twice in the past four years. In both cases the solution (after noticing a camera was taking too many pictures, mostly daylight, at a higher than usual pixel count) was to reset the camera. The calls to Cuddeback never provided a solution (or...

First fawn of 2025 on our property! Plus, some nice antler development for Mid-May!

First Fawn Spring 2025. Several of the does are still carrying. This is the fist one I've have on camera.

There may be CRP in our future: With this year's deadline approaching, I met with our private lands conservationist and local USDA director and decided to sign up for CRP before the June 6, 2025 deadline. Sadly, CRP payments are down considerably (about $150/acre) but that really is causing me...

I'm jealous....I used to go to Europe (Germany, CR, Switzerland, France and the UK) every summer for work, leading Reformation Studies Tours for graduate students. That ended in 2019. My last trip was 2023 and I don't really see any in our immediate future. As noted, enjoy the churches and...

I can related to your statement, “my brain wants to tell me it looks like.” I am experiencing that around our pond, as the few 3/4” saplings have become 3” trees—lots of them. Does your state have a cost share program that might incentivize returning this to early successional growth or other...