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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5354450" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>I have two high-tension powerline right-of-ways that cross my hill-country place. I always thought they were going to be gold mines. They never turned out to be. Until recently. Once the maintenance group switched from mowing them every 3 years to spraying them aerially, and then to spot spraying them with back-pack crews, the hunting around them has changed dramatically. I suspect it is the change of habitat which has occurred due to the change in maintenance style. During the cyclic mowing years, the right-of-ways would be all same-age young saplings. In the last year before mowing, when the saplings were at their peak height, deer used the right-of-ways as bedding cover, and they needed to be hunted as such (nearby, but not right on them). But now that the right-of-ways are spot-sprayed, they have shifted to tall native grasses (especially Indian Grass), and deer are using them heavily as travel corridors. Deer (and especially buck) sightings in and along the edges of the right-of-ways have increased dramatically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5354450, member: 17"] I have two high-tension powerline right-of-ways that cross my hill-country place. I always thought they were going to be gold mines. They never turned out to be. Until recently. Once the maintenance group switched from mowing them every 3 years to spraying them aerially, and then to spot spraying them with back-pack crews, the hunting around them has changed dramatically. I suspect it is the change of habitat which has occurred due to the change in maintenance style. During the cyclic mowing years, the right-of-ways would be all same-age young saplings. In the last year before mowing, when the saplings were at their peak height, deer used the right-of-ways as bedding cover, and they needed to be hunted as such (nearby, but not right on them). But now that the right-of-ways are spot-sprayed, they have shifted to tall native grasses (especially Indian Grass), and deer are using them heavily as travel corridors. Deer (and especially buck) sightings in and along the edges of the right-of-ways have increased dramatically. [/QUOTE]
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