Recent content by 3I0

I'd just burn them as you have the chance, and if you can use some of the leftover ash just treat it as a bonus. I have areas on my place where it was logged a bit over 20 years ago with old slash piles and they are still 2' thick of debris with nothing but thistle and raspberry poking out of...

I get them popping up all over the place so I like to transplant them in spring time to more desired locations. That's usually good for 20+ a year just where they are growing beside my driveway, in lawns/fields, etc. A couple years ago I found a source for cheap (for Canada) bare root seedlings...

I run the 225 mm diameter Stihl "Maxi Blade" when I am doing trees (P/N 4000 713 4201). With these blades, and I am assuming the ones you are using, it's all over for that blade as soon as you hear even the faintest "ting" from a rock until you resharpen - and when re sharpening you have to...

In areas where I've had ~20ft aspen mulched, regrowth was sparse in areas where they were able to get into the ground a bit - I think from a combination of ripping roots out of the ground as well as building a thick layer of mulch on top that suppresses regrowth. In a rockier area where the guy...

Without getting a clearer face/ear picture, proportions look like an eastern coyote to me.

Numbers are really thin this year at my place ~50 miles north of the MN border in the NE corner, and hearing similar reports from most people in my area. I have 2 resident does + 1 this years fawn that have largely lived on/near my place since spring but other than that only 2 juvenile bucks...

Bought our place in 2016 for $187.50/acre. Current market values are probably $750-1000/acre for similar properties that were likely logged off in the last 5-20 years. Driven by a combination of general inflation as well as COVID after effects of people moving up here to live off...

I have tons of beaked hazel at my place that shows up everywhere I don't mow, but it doesn't seem high on the list for browse species here (low deer density though overall). It seems like they will browse it here or there as they walk by but you don't see every stem get chewed at the ends like...

Put on ITP Mud Lite's after having multiple flats on the factory tires that came with our machine, and no flats (or traction issues) since.

My property is pretty close to the end of the Northern range of deer in this area and some things off the top of my head: - A bad winter can cause high double-digit percentages of the deer population to die off due to freezing/starvation, or getting eaten by wolves. - Very few types (and low...

I have heard from the one person I know with an ATV track kit that they aren't great for going over top of obstacles like trees across the trails and you get totally covered in snow, but overall work pretty good. I'd imagine you wouldn't have many issues with them if you are able to keep some...

Planning to smash down tons of mountain maple with my brush cutter. It is definitely a primary browse species on my property and I have large amounts of it in the understory of mature closed-canopy forest that exists as 3"-4" diameter stems. Did an experiment on a patch last winter where I cut...

Yes - my place is around 40km NW of the city. Fairly close to the north-end of their range already (soft line.... maybe 20-30 km further north away from the lake where you can drive logging roads all day and pretty much never see a deer track) but has historically held decent numbers.

Based on a guesstimate of what I am seeing on my cell cams, seeing in person, and talking to other hunters I would guess last winters deep snow (3-4 feet accumulation on the ground by the time spring showed up a couple weeks later than normal) + wolves took out 75%+ of the localized deer...

I have observed numerous times w/ bait out that deer sightings from cameras monitoring the bait plummet when the majority of leaves start falling off the trees, and then come back again in another week or two. I've always suspected the deer might be eating the freshly fallen leaves and not...