Author name: Jared Van Hees

Habitat Podcast #404 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Chad Fike! We discuss: -Chad goes from years of small bucks to big Michigan deer after three trips to Tony LaPratt’s boot camp. -Cory reads an 80-acre Big Rapids-area rectangle by what surrounds it:

Habitat Podcast #403 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Cory Franceus and Matt Zahl! We discuss: -Hutchy gets poison ivy and cellulitis prepping one stand in southern Ohio in 95-degree heat. -Matt plants a sixteenth-of-an-acre plot in the middle of his swamp after a year of

Habitat Podcast #402 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Arron Bleise and Kevin Gross! We discuss: -Arron explains why planting an inch and a quarter deep in July left his seed sitting 21 days. -Arron adds pearl millet to his mix for the relationship it builds

Deercamp Detour – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with the Deercamp Detour! Today we talk with Justin Curtis. We discuss: Hunting fair-chase red stag and giant Sika deer on a family trip to Ireland. Buying 95 acres in Iowa to build food plots for unpressured late-season bucks.

Habitat Podcast #401 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Janis Putelis! We discuss: -Janis cut every white pine off 20 acres and released the oaks hiding underneath them. -Why 40 acres is barely enough timber for a logger to justify moving his equipment in. -The US

Habitat Podcast #400 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mark Drury! We discuss: -Jared and Hutchy open episode 400 by thanking eight years of listeners since March 2018. -Mark explains why EHD has cut his southern Iowa deer herd by sixty to seventy percent. -Mark sold

Habitat Podcast #399 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Joe Allera! We discuss: -Joe buys 40 acres of wetland because 40 acres of tillable ground was priced out of reach. -Joe cuts over 100 deer beds into his swamp transitions with a weed whacker and a

Habitat Podcast #398 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Lincoln Rohn! We discuss: -Lincoln pulled about 50 stumps out of an acre-and-a-half plot near Free Soil and left three on purpose. -Why Lincoln leaves stumps and pine pods standing in a plot — deer hold to

Habitat Podcast #397 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Adam Miller! We discuss: -Why Adam says killing a 170 in Iowa Zone 7 wouldn’t make him a better hunter. -How Adam drew Iowa Zone 7 with three points and is going mostly as Joe’s cameraman. -Why

Habitat Podcast #396 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Josh Arbogast! We discuss: Josh explains how Michigan’s new baiting law only restricts corn within 300 yards of a home. He ties that 300-yard rule to Rep. Ken Borton’s personal grudge from an old baiting ticket. Michigan’s