“This is the key to landscape conservation, and the crux of the landscape conservation problem we face across the world – achieving private landowner buy-in to manage in connected modus for the benefit of ALL wildlife.” By: Hunter Pruitt, Cooperative Specialist / Georgia If you ask any wildlife biologist – worth one’s salt – what […]
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For many of us, we identify with a particular aspect of our personality more so than we do other aspects. Some of us are prone to going “chips in” towards one facet or another, forsaking balance in pursuit of something “more”. When we do this, we often tie our value as a person to the
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By: Brian Scott Halbleib While sitting in the towering, shadowy, spruce trees of the Black Hills of South Dakota in a tree stand many years ago, I had a front row seat to the attractiveness and drawing power of alfalfa when it comes to deer. Waves of deer, numbers approaching three digits, passed by my
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This is a question that plagues the deer world this time of year. The temperatures are cold in most of the whitetail’s range, seasons have come to a close, and hunters are anxiously awaiting Spring to chase turkeys and plant summertime food plots. As the cabin fever sets into overdrive, the internet fires are stoked
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A Simple Sheet of Common Herbicide use in Habitat Management & Food Plots Feel free to print this off and keep in your truck!
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Understand soil has truly impacted how I look at planting my food-plots, positively. Jon Stika, wrote – “A Soil Owner’s Manual”, and my journey for more knowledge was started. Jon does not spend time in this book talking about synthetics and heavy soil amendments, alternatively, Jon, explains how the soil functions and how our native
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In today’s deer hunting culture there seems to be a dramatically increased level of interest in managing hunting properties for quality deer herds and quality deer hunting experiences. Much of this interest is focused on tracts of land that are 60-80 acres on the smaller end, and up to many hundreds or even thousands of
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As deer seasons draw to a close, it is time to start focusing on next season- don’t tell my wife!! So what are a few winter time scouting tips that you can implement this year? Study the browse During the winter, it is easy to study the farm and property for browse levels. As you
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Imagine owning a private whitetail hunting paradise with high ground and damp darker bottoms, with clumps of hardwood timber and small fields with seven-foot-tall warm-season grasses. The property has nut and fruit trees strategically placed ready to drop fall treats and a collection of food plots scattered around connected by travel corridors and lines of
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By: Zach Haas – Senior Aquatic Biologist & Director of Operations, Wisconsin Lake & Pond Resource LLC Every year property owners, conservationists, and hunters are looking at how they can improve properties for wildlife. One of the most overlooked items these individuals miss are water sources. Why Water? All living things on this planet require
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