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"Must Do's" when taking over a new property?????
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<blockquote data-quote="Boll Weevil" data-source="post: 5531079" data-attributes="member: 10006"><p>1) Majority hickory, pine, and cherry isn't really going to help much in the deer food department so you might want to consider interplanting some other hard mast species. A few years ago I interplanted poplar, mulberry, red, and cherrybark oak into a 20ac stand of mature hardwood where some storm timber had been removed. Because of the big holes in the canopy allowing lots of sunlight, the new saplings have absolutely thrived.</p><p></p><p>2) Daylighting will certainly work for encouraging native browse along roads or edges. Greenbriar, poke, blackberry, honeysuckle, ragweed, etc will all help feed deer during the growing season. If you have access, lightly disk as much edge as you can and let Ma'nature do the rest.</p><p></p><p>3) A timber stand improvement (TSI) project might be in your future to reduce stem density and improve species mix. One outcome I totally stumbled on through TSI projects is stump sprouting = deer food with most of those stump sprouts being literally browsed to death.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Boll Weevil, post: 5531079, member: 10006"] 1) Majority hickory, pine, and cherry isn't really going to help much in the deer food department so you might want to consider interplanting some other hard mast species. A few years ago I interplanted poplar, mulberry, red, and cherrybark oak into a 20ac stand of mature hardwood where some storm timber had been removed. Because of the big holes in the canopy allowing lots of sunlight, the new saplings have absolutely thrived. 2) Daylighting will certainly work for encouraging native browse along roads or edges. Greenbriar, poke, blackberry, honeysuckle, ragweed, etc will all help feed deer during the growing season. If you have access, lightly disk as much edge as you can and let Ma'nature do the rest. 3) A timber stand improvement (TSI) project might be in your future to reduce stem density and improve species mix. One outcome I totally stumbled on through TSI projects is stump sprouting = deer food with most of those stump sprouts being literally browsed to death. [/QUOTE]
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