Recent content by LanceS4803

Thanks for so much info, Marine. I have a backlog of wired to hunt to listen to, as meateater gets preference. The land area is small, 50 acres, but is a core of woods and prior clearcuts in a sea of agriculture. My goals are habitat, wetlands, improvement as it relates to viable deer habitat...

J-Bird, thanks for the great photos. You bring up a good point: just because a mineral stump isn't a favorite browse of deer, doesn't mean it can't provide great cover.

GREAT info, thank you. After waging war on any and all sweet gums, now is the time for me to slow down and plan. You've given me lots to think about. It would sure be nice if I had a forester/wildlife expert on hand every weekend.

Nature does it best.

Love the chart!! That is getting saved. I have quite a lot of deer, so caging will go up on some of the stumps.

Oh I have learned about sunlight! Hack and squirting the Sweet Gums, you can see positive results the next year. Really opens the canopy. But, that sunlight also allowed all those dormant gum balls to sprout, and they came back with a vengeance, by the thousands. Basal bark is taking care of...

And for clarification, I am not talking about placing supplemental mineral blocks on stumps. I am using the term from the MSU Deer Lab about cutting trees and having deer using the subsequent sprouting as browse. I am working with a wetlands area that has 27% of stems as Red Maples, 17% Yellow...

Here from Middle Tennessee. I have no idea how I never knew about this site, been posting to our state hunting forum for year with habitat questions. I am working with a wetlands, so that is a bit different than most folks.