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How come it is fun for me to stare at a topo map and day dream about having a dozer guy clear areas to plant pines, food plots and roads? I guess tomorrow I get to know. Hunt in the a.m. talk to dozer guy in the afternoon. Fun day
 
Gosh, if it's a sickness I'm in critical condition.

You would not believe the adventures I've had looking at a map, planning exactly how to hunt an area and figuring our how the deer will negotiate the terrain. Okay - maybe YOU would. :smile: If I am going to hunt a WMA I spend a lot of time with those maps. It's really neat to identify a spot, put the coordinates into the GPS, and actually find that place. Sometimes is turns out as good as hoped, and sometimes not. But that's part of the fun. I do that with lake maps also to try to find good trolling waters.

My place is small, but I did have some dozer work done a few years ago. Of course, now that I know more I wish that I had done a few things differently, but I'm still happy with the results.

Hope it all works out well for you. Maybe you can post up some before/after pics.
 
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If he spends more than 5 minutes with you sitting in a truck or cabin, the poor guy will know your sick....stinky :grin:
 
Sounds real exciting to me too! I used to study topo maps alot.
I found some good stands by the maps before ever setting foot in
the woods.

If I owned the land back then, a bulldozer would have been a
dream more bazar that The Wizard Of OZ!

A food plot in the middle of the Hickman Co. or Lewis Co. woods
back then.......was unheard of.
 
RKenney said:
A food plot in the middle of the Hickman Co. or Lewis Co. woods
back then.......was unheard of.
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I've got some great stories about creating my first food plots many years ago--before the idea was common knowledge among hunters/lay-people. To this day there are locals who think I'm growing huge amounts of dope on my property.

What else would a long-haired ex-Californian be doing with truckloads of lime and fertilizer back in the woods?
 
BSK said:
To this day there are locals who think I'm growing huge amounts of dope on my property.
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I had an exlusion cage in my plot and the guy who dozered my plots was asking when I was going to give him some!! I let him down easy.

My brother accuses me of never stopping thinking about our land...already lining up the work for this winter.
 
BowGuy84 said:
My brother accuses me of never stopping thinking about our land...already lining up the work for this winter.
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I have a schedule/plan for what needs to be done each year on my place that stretches out well beyond my life-time!
 
richmanbarbeque said:
How come it is fun for me to stare at a topo map and day dream about having a dozer guy clear areas to plant pines, food plots and roads? I guess tomorrow I get to know. Hunt in the a.m. talk to dozer guy in the afternoon. Fun day
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I can see that kind of dreaming except for one aspect that you mention: pines. Pines seem to be fine from an investment perspective, but from a hunter perspective I can think of many other things to do with a dozer and the acreage that would be beneficial to the hunter and the wildlife. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me on this.
 
BigAl said:
richmanbarbeque said:
How come it is fun for me to stare at a topo map and day dream about having a dozer guy clear areas to plant pines, food plots and roads? I guess tomorrow I get to know. Hunt in the a.m. talk to dozer guy in the afternoon. Fun day
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I can see that kind of dreaming except for one aspect that you mention: pines. Pines seem to be fine from an investment perspective, but from a hunter perspective I can think of many other things to do with a dozer and the acreage that would be beneficial to the hunter and the wildlife. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me on this.
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BigAl,

In Rich's situation, they need to clear downed logs and brush from earlier timbering operations to make pine planting easier (the hardwood timber has already been removed).

When planted in patches in a primarily hardwood environment, pines can be an unbelievably powerful deer magnet because of the type of cover they produce in their younger growth stanges. Now once mature, they have little value for deer. Pines can also be used to create visual barriers between your property and a neighbors (reduce poaching).
 
BigAl, what BSK said. :grin: He has been there and knows that I need pines for certain areas. 500 hundred sounds like a lot but they will be planted in 3-5 areas and when I am done I may have closer to 1,000 total. 3 of the places will start with pines where my border meets adjoining properties. As BSK said it will give me a buffer from the other land owners and my hope is that I can create enough "edge" long term to promote more daytime deer movement.
The Pines will also help with Thermal cover in a few years and will hopefully attract deer from surrounding properties. In 2-3 years my plans are to be a magnet in the area to increase deer movement and provide both bedding cover and browse for any deer that will want to reside. Landowners around me like "big woods"and I am glad they do. I have select cut, "big woods" and will soon have tons of browse, food plots and pines. I am currently working on a plan on where/how to plant soft mass trees and more hard mass along with identifying native plants, bushes etc. to keep everything as close to the perfect habitat that I can with a very small 59 acres. It is fun! :)

Add building a cabin and my wife and daughter worrying more about a toilet than anything and 09 plans on being very busy.
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