Recent content by BenA

I recently sent an email in to Drs. Lashley and Gulsby about firebreaks and different types and uses. They discuss my emailed question in this video/podcast:

Congrats on the new place. Good advice above. The web soil survey should be able to tell you if what's there now was what was there historically. I think a good bit of Kentucky is now on there with historical plant communities. Is it in the barrens region? That could account for it.

On one of the recent podcasts with Drs. Gulsby and Lashley, they were talking about several plants including SL. They were giving "fun facts" about different ones. They said quail would fill up on SL, but they couldn't digest it, so they could starve on it without realizing it. They also said it...

@Native Hunter keeps all the good ones on his side of the county and sends me his scrubs.

I can see it coming. Some redneck with money is going to start doing drone deer drives.

I agree. I went to a little Kasco no-till drill in Louisiana in 2006 or 2007. If I didn't use chemicals then, the beans I planted would have probably been choked out by the weeds.

The only thing I planted in Louisiana that didn't require herbicides in a spring planting were cowpeas or forage soybeans. On both of those, I was able to get a pretty good weed free plot with just bushhogging, disking, broadcasting, followed by a light disking in of the seed. In fall plots, I...

I don't think we're going to stop drone technology from advancing, so I think there needs to be advances in technology to shield an area from surveillance. Like privacy fences and screens, we have to shield from eyes in the sky too. I'm sure tech will advance to counteract it. On the other...

We've removed and prevent so much of the historical management components, that I doubt we'll ever see what it Is supposed to look like. I would love to go back in time and see what my property looked like in the early 1400's.

I wish. None of us wants to use chemicals. I don't think it's possible unless you're talking about doing it on an extremely small scale. I cut a tree of heaven, and a hundred more pop up. If invasives weren't an issue or you didn't care about them, I guess you could. But, allowing invasives...

During college, I had a course where we went and burned and studied different forest management practices in a SE Louisiana pine forest. Some of these areas were burned annually by the students. Some weren't burned at all. The places that weren't burned were difficult to walk through because of...

But, you have much better groceries than he does, so I would think the nutritional plane is higher because of your work. Just think if the nutritional plane was raised on that 1000 acres too. The deer would definitely have a better diet than they are getting now over there. Diet makes a big...

This was an excellent episode, where they dove into the studies showing just that, and how burning reduced predator numbers.

Do you think there's any density-dependent processes coming into play along with predators? Seems like a pretty good number of deer there.

I grew up in an area that was practically devoid of deer. And, I covered every inch of almost a square mile area routinely as a kid. The first spots where I noticed deer appearing and using were in abandoned pastures that were growing up into shrubland. I think shrublands are an overlooked...