Woodson County, KS 765± Acres

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Description
With the inception of more prolific wildlife and habitat management over the last few decades, the process of purchasing, managing, and effectively hunting land has greatly evolved in recent times. Over that period, many educated and thoughtful managers or researchers have developed new strategies and concepts in how to best grow and control your wildlife populations. The goal is to create a self-sustaining system that produces results of healthy and relaxed wildlife consistently over long periods of time. Giving back to the land and the wildlife on a consistent basis has proven to be the key ingredient for many places, but especially here at “The Oaks.”
BUILDING A HAVEN -
In most cases, the building and maintaining of a wildlife herd seems difficult and many times fall short because, as we all know, Mother Nature has its ways of correcting itself and being unpredictable, so there are always hurdles. When the plan all comes together, it can be beautiful. In the case of “The Oaks,” it has all come together. The culmination of research, steady implementation, strict evaluations, and simply a lot of time has yielded strong results. It all started with the acquisition of a property with a much larger than average timber habitat mass, and that was not by accident. As viewed from an aerial perspective, this property is a sizeable portion of what is likely the largest block of timber in the county and certainly in the immediate area. Taking that habitat and then structuring the management plan around what the land provides, all the while learning through implementation and adjustments, has been no small undertaking for the current owners. It has been years worth of studying the deer and their habits, where they are traveling and why, how they are using the land, and then laying the management plan over the top of that landscape. There are 17 regenerative no-till food plots here. A number of those plots are large and are utilized as sanctuary feeder plots, some are used for observation, and some are used for hunting. The largest and most centrally located food plots are never hunted; they are simply left for the deer and other wildlife to forage undisturbed. In addition, there are also 14 mini plots or constructed openings that are utilized for staging activity sites which have been thoughtfully placed and lay on the outskirts of the feeder plots or along travel corridors. To accommodate access to these areas while trying to leave the wildlife comfortably undisturbed, the approximate 14 miles of trails include main trails but also entry and exit sneak routes for the best possible undisturbed access to hunt locations. And the list of detailed hunting and management improvements goes on and on, from hand planted fruit and nut orchards in most all food plots, to major predator control, to population study analysis. Upon scrolling through the specific bullet points contained within this profile below, you will see more details of the additional practices that have been religiously maintained here.
EXTENSIVE INVENTORY -
There are many good hunting properties, but there are very few strong producers. The research and development are obviously the key additions on top of the right mix of Mother Nature. To track the benefits over time takes a tenacious commitment to learn your deer and follow them as they grow. Through the extensive trail camera history at “The Oaks,” it is easy to see that many of the deer that current ownership has grown on the property were harvested here. But considering the location just off of the major river bottoms of the Verdigris River and the exceptional habitat along Sandy Creek, this property also is prolific in the travel and migrating deer realm. Extensive numbers of mature bucks per year venture onto and through this property as crop harvest and fall pressure prove to be a major benefit in helping moved deer find sanctuary here. Through intricate trail camera surveying, it has been realized that the goals of growing, attracting, and sustaining a large number of mature bucks have been realized year over year. The number of bucks here, both mature and younger age brackets, is the number one key feature. It is common to have multiple deer, multiple bucks, and a wide array of wildlife on every sit. The long-term goal and strategy in the management plan here were to establish maximum wildlife growth and replacement. That is what is here now, with quality age structure, high deer density, herd health, and an everyday sanctuary locale. Not by just one simple step but lots of steps over time has this occurred, steps like fruit and nut orchards at every turn, by ample food, by entrance and exit trails, by strong predator control, by inventory of animals, and by maintaining sanctuary level operations.

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