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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5533174" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I was also intentionally adding a habitat edge right on top of a preferred terrain feature for buck movement: the "military crest" of the ridge-line, which bucks like to travel along. From my old rub density survey, I found I could increase the amount of rubbing activity (and probably frequency of buck travel) five-fold by creating a preferred habitat edge right on top of the preferred terrain feature.</p><p></p><p></p><p>In the picture, they are 10 years old. They are now 24 years old! Deer don't use them as much as they used too (I think usage declines pretty dramatically once the pines reach about 15-20 years of age), but we still see a lot of buck usage of that ridge-line, especially in a good acorn year.</p><p></p><p>And yes, two coworkers and I planted those 6,000 bareroot seedlings in one brutal 3-day event, while it was sleeting and snowing. And after that I swore I would never plant pines myself ever again! So what did I do after my last timber cut? Planted 4,000 pine seedlings. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦♂️" title="Man facepalming :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5533174, member: 17"] I was also intentionally adding a habitat edge right on top of a preferred terrain feature for buck movement: the "military crest" of the ridge-line, which bucks like to travel along. From my old rub density survey, I found I could increase the amount of rubbing activity (and probably frequency of buck travel) five-fold by creating a preferred habitat edge right on top of the preferred terrain feature. In the picture, they are 10 years old. They are now 24 years old! Deer don't use them as much as they used too (I think usage declines pretty dramatically once the pines reach about 15-20 years of age), but we still see a lot of buck usage of that ridge-line, especially in a good acorn year. And yes, two coworkers and I planted those 6,000 bareroot seedlings in one brutal 3-day event, while it was sleeting and snowing. And after that I swore I would never plant pines myself ever again! So what did I do after my last timber cut? Planted 4,000 pine seedlings. 🤦♂️ [/QUOTE]
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