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 steps flat and painting them.
-Mike crossbow-shoots a buck in the head the night before Ohio’s gun opener, and it runs him over in the dark.
-He escapes by ramming the buck’s head into a TV antenna tower, then waits it out from his stand for hours.
-An antler opens his neck up behind his ear, he’s in the ER until 6 a.m., then goes back out and shoots a doe.
-Mike buys land with tillable ground so the farm rent pays 100 percent of his real estate taxes.
-A reappraisal tripled some of his property values, and he calls a tax on owning land a sin.
-U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s partner program designs his wetland units, built on clay-core “mushroom” berms.
-His excavator bids nearly 50 percent under the other contractor and saves Mike a bunch on the build.
-In the spring his wetlands hold 500 to 1,000 pintails at a time, plus hundreds of swans.
And So Much More!
Chapters:
0:00 A Buck Attack, a Floodplain and Ducks: Meet Mike Hlavaty
1:26 Mike’s Ohio Lodge and His 2021 Land Plan
3:29 Hunting Alone at 10 and Homemade Conduit Tree Stands
8:50 The Buck Attack: An Arrow to the Head and a TV Tower Escape
18:08 Four Parcels in a Floodplain
19:45 Buying Land That Pays Its Own Taxes
24:28 Clay Berms and a Blown-Out Ditch
26:24 Building Wetlands With U.S. Fish and Wildlife
32:03 Tile Drains, the Newest Parcel and the Spring Migration
34:47 What to Plant Before You Flood
38:08 Deer and Ducks on the Same Ground
39:53 Jared’s Wrap: The Internet Crash and the Cold Front
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