Deck78
Well-Known Member
Fingers crossed this is the year we actually make progress on the farm. We have owned it for several years now and have struggled to get a logger willing to work with us to cut pines. We have a pretty large tract and when our property was clear cut of the hardwoods in the late 90s it was poorly replanted in pines and we have a complete mess at our place.
There are a ton of underperforming white oaks trying to emerge between densely populated pines leaving us with a ton of favorable bedding, great future hardwoods but not enough habitat diversity under the mature pine canopy. A high percentage of our surrounding neighbors have mature hardwoods which keeps deer moving on and off our place at a constant rate and we don't have more than about 30 ac in sporadic mast producers spread throughout our place.
Met with a logger last month and he thinks that he is game to come in and start cutting in February. Not sure if this will pan out but it sure would be awesome to start getting these pines chopped and dropped.
If we don't get lucky with the logger then we will be working to enlarge the legacy food plots and clear a few small pockets in some identified high traffic corridors for a few more ladder stands. We will also be working on improving the TVA line that runs on our place.
Sounds like a lot of ya'll have some killer plans this year. Can't wait to see the improvements.
There are a ton of underperforming white oaks trying to emerge between densely populated pines leaving us with a ton of favorable bedding, great future hardwoods but not enough habitat diversity under the mature pine canopy. A high percentage of our surrounding neighbors have mature hardwoods which keeps deer moving on and off our place at a constant rate and we don't have more than about 30 ac in sporadic mast producers spread throughout our place.
Met with a logger last month and he thinks that he is game to come in and start cutting in February. Not sure if this will pan out but it sure would be awesome to start getting these pines chopped and dropped.
If we don't get lucky with the logger then we will be working to enlarge the legacy food plots and clear a few small pockets in some identified high traffic corridors for a few more ladder stands. We will also be working on improving the TVA line that runs on our place.
Sounds like a lot of ya'll have some killer plans this year. Can't wait to see the improvements.