Author name: Jared Van Hees

Habitat Podcast #407 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mike Hlavaty! We discuss: -Mike hunts a coal strip mine in Muskingum County alone at age 10, long before youth seasons or hunter safety. -He and his brothers build ladder stands out of electrical conduit, hammering the

Habitat Podcast #406 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are at deer camp with the Habitat Podcast Patreon Hunt crew! We discuss: -Twelve Patreon members hunt Michigan state land from Latitude saddles over the archery opener. -Jared holds at full draw for 55 seconds before heart-shooting a doe while Matt films from

Habitat Podcast #405 – In today’s episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Gavin Sodders! We discuss: -Gavin transforms his family’s roughly 26-acre Indiana hayfields through fourteen years of habitat work. -Gavin watches more than 500 persimmon trees emerge naturally after years of trial-and-error habitat work. -Gavin learns why oversized

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