Trapshooter1
Well-Known Member
So just over a year ago, I bought 120 acre farm. It's a mostly tillable tract, but has a deer hunting wildlife element to the farm. The Wildlife element to the farm consists of some CRP, and A river bottom that looks like park city.(Hollow)
So after visiting with a fella that works on Timber stand improvement, I've determined I have to open up the canopy(Full of huge river maples) to try to make some ground cover for the deer.(Trying to make a Moderately thick, Thermal covered Sanctuary for the deer)
So last March I spent 2-3 days cutting huge river maples, and on day 2 the neighbor to this farm comes down and wonders why I'm cutting all these trees. And says I'm crazy for doing so.
After seeing the results this year from my first cut. I think I'm going to cut 2 more big areas on my farm.
So which begs the question what do you guys plant for Thermal cover for the deer? I was thinking maybe a Cedar of some kind, I'd like to line the West edge, and SE edge of my property with some sort of thermal cover.
(This tree/bush has to tolerate wet feed because the water comes up and goes down on the piece, and has to tolerate sand on this river bottom)
So after visiting with a fella that works on Timber stand improvement, I've determined I have to open up the canopy(Full of huge river maples) to try to make some ground cover for the deer.(Trying to make a Moderately thick, Thermal covered Sanctuary for the deer)
So last March I spent 2-3 days cutting huge river maples, and on day 2 the neighbor to this farm comes down and wonders why I'm cutting all these trees. And says I'm crazy for doing so.
After seeing the results this year from my first cut. I think I'm going to cut 2 more big areas on my farm.
So which begs the question what do you guys plant for Thermal cover for the deer? I was thinking maybe a Cedar of some kind, I'd like to line the West edge, and SE edge of my property with some sort of thermal cover.
(This tree/bush has to tolerate wet feed because the water comes up and goes down on the piece, and has to tolerate sand on this river bottom)