sandbur
5 year old buck +
Our local area manager wants to turn most of the wildlife management areas into oak savannah and NWSG, He removes the cedar and says we have enough of that type of cover in our area. NWSG do not provide winter cover on our light soils. I don't think he likes deer anyway.I have seen the same thing in Ottertail county and I believe Art has the same observations by him. After working with the NRCS on my property I've come to the conclusions that it is all about reporting enrolled acres instead of quality acres. If they actually measured acres that met minimum quality standards the acres would be less. Once again the perception is all these acres are enrolled but many do little for the wildlife.
the area sportsmens club that donated the land to tghe DNR is not happy with the management and has chosen to keep other lands under their ownership. Then they can plant foodplots and manage for deer as well as pheasants.