Rit
5 year old buck +
* Continue my assault on buckthorn. I’ve killed at least 1500 already this habitat season
* Trim the miles of deer trails I have created over the last three years.
* Plant the 100 trees I have ordered (so far) in my newly designed destination plot. This includes a variety of pears, 2 crab apples, 4 Japanese persimmons, 3 Chinese chestnuts, ERC, Norway Spruce, ROD, hazelnut, American plum, and several other browse species.
* Build a homemade elevated blind so I can take my young girls on a few hunts this year.
* Complete the prep work for the first leg of my road screen. 1100’ in total.
* Overseed my switch buffer in the destination food plot. Mow the heavy foxtail areas and spray before green up.
* Find a well balanced cover crop cocktail with species that will either terminate after mowing or will be easy to spray while maintaining a good C/N ratio so I don’t starve fall plots of N. I really want to find the right balance of nutrient recycling without the need to add fertilizer.
* Address my ridge top hinge cut failures. Back in 2016 before I knew anything I cut a swath of trees, very large trees in fact on a small ridge. It was about 40’ wide and 600’ long. It was a buck bedding area with rubs all over. After I was done it has been void of deer activity ever since. I need to clean up all the large trees and provide better access.
* edge feather one section of my 2nd plot.
* Thin a really good bedding area next to my best kill plot. The area is starting to mature. I’ll girdle everything big or harvest the tree if I can.
* Tranplant as many cedars as I can into my core bedding area.
* Trim the miles of deer trails I have created over the last three years.
* Plant the 100 trees I have ordered (so far) in my newly designed destination plot. This includes a variety of pears, 2 crab apples, 4 Japanese persimmons, 3 Chinese chestnuts, ERC, Norway Spruce, ROD, hazelnut, American plum, and several other browse species.
* Build a homemade elevated blind so I can take my young girls on a few hunts this year.
* Complete the prep work for the first leg of my road screen. 1100’ in total.
* Overseed my switch buffer in the destination food plot. Mow the heavy foxtail areas and spray before green up.
* Find a well balanced cover crop cocktail with species that will either terminate after mowing or will be easy to spray while maintaining a good C/N ratio so I don’t starve fall plots of N. I really want to find the right balance of nutrient recycling without the need to add fertilizer.
* Address my ridge top hinge cut failures. Back in 2016 before I knew anything I cut a swath of trees, very large trees in fact on a small ridge. It was about 40’ wide and 600’ long. It was a buck bedding area with rubs all over. After I was done it has been void of deer activity ever since. I need to clean up all the large trees and provide better access.
* edge feather one section of my 2nd plot.
* Thin a really good bedding area next to my best kill plot. The area is starting to mature. I’ll girdle everything big or harvest the tree if I can.
* Tranplant as many cedars as I can into my core bedding area.