Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Shortly after a logger took a couple of walnut and oak from this spot in the forest I went in and cleaned it up, fenced it from cattle, and planted a foodplot. Deer used it a lot but mostly right at dark or at night. I took the fence down and let it go back to whatever was in the seed bank.
It's now a glorious mess and deer are in it throughout the day on a very regular basis. I go in every couple of yrs and do some work to keep it bushy and at deer level.
Normal forest view:
Pic from the same spot, but pointed at the regen:
I clean around some better trees to give them a chance like this oak surrounded by hedge:
Some trees are pruned so that the can grow taller. I actually want some nice straight hedge growing here:
Some are hinged:
Some are coppiced:
Multilevel food and cover source and the deer love it. Much better use than when it was a plot!
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It's now a glorious mess and deer are in it throughout the day on a very regular basis. I go in every couple of yrs and do some work to keep it bushy and at deer level.
Normal forest view:
Pic from the same spot, but pointed at the regen:
I clean around some better trees to give them a chance like this oak surrounded by hedge:
Some trees are pruned so that the can grow taller. I actually want some nice straight hedge growing here:
Some are hinged:
Some are coppiced:
Multilevel food and cover source and the deer love it. Much better use than when it was a plot!
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