How to Easily Create Deer Bedding Areas - The Management Advantage #84
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- čas přidán 29. 02. 2016
- Having bedding areas on a property is a huge step toward enticing whitetails to call your property home, but as any land manager knows, beddings areas come and go. Timber matures and canopies close resulting in less forest floor cover and fewer deer utilizing the location. Fortunately, with a little bit of leg work, we can get into these areas and reclaim them.
Most deer hunters are working with small tracts of land. It's important to diversify as much of your property as possible and having a bedding area or two can greatly increase the number of whitetails that use your property. The Shoopman family farm had a few of these areas, but over the years they've become less desirable to deer because of an influx of Bush Honeysuckle. The abundance of Bush Honeysuckle has limited the amount of low growing vegetation because of the quick establishing canopy it produces. With a good afternoon of work with a chainsaw and some herbicide, Casey, Chase, and Jeff were able to clear out a sizable area that was overtaken. By clearing this area out, they're opening it up for some future plantings of more desirable species of mast producing trees and the sunlight will now be able to hit the forest floor and an influx of low growing native species will begin this year. These low growing plants will provide an abundance of forage for whitetails and greatly increase deer activity in the area.
For hunters on small tracts of land, this is a great way to improve your property. A bedding area doesn't have to be 10 acres or larger. Manipulating and improving even a small area like they did can have huge effects come this fall.
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I wish we could have property like that.... Awesome video!!!!
Good stuff! What a gorgeous Aussie!!
Fergie!!!
What a cool looking dog.
honeysuckle is a deers favorite food
By utilizing prescribed fire you could accomplish your goals in a much faster fashion. Fire promotes oak germination, sets back the honeysuckle, and also removes leaf litter to where the native species of grasses and forbs will germinate again. You’d also remove tick habitat with the fire. You might give it a shot to help you not have to do quite as much work.
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Could this same process be done for a section of timber being taken over by basswood trees? There is zero under growth because of the canopy. Should I cut out sections at a time and replant a tree or two in its place? Love the videos!
+Outdoorsman351 Yes it could!
Where do you get the seeds for that switch grass!? and could i plant that in central Wisconsin? or is it more of a southern plant? Love your videos! Keep it up!
+Matthew Weis :You can contact your local elevator or seed mill. They'll have access to it and might be able to point you in the right direction in terms of variety for the area. You can also find a lot of information on it in the forums at www.qdma.com Thanks for watching!
+Matthew Weis
Ernst Conservation Seeds is where you want to go. Best prices and selection and service anywhere!
You can use 50% glyphosate when you cut stump. Very effective and much cheaper.
Would most of the management tips work for blacktail too?
Ever make a “dabbed”. Get some PVC thread pieces together one end with a cap and the other end with a smaller opening that you jam a sponge in. Then dab the cut ends instead of spraying.
what the song at the end of the video called?
Does this same chemical work on Buckthorn?
I hear Chuck mention "Crop Oil" mixed with the triclopyr. Where do I find it? I looked on the Keystonepest web site and I see the Triclopyr but not "Crop Oil". Also, any recommendations on mix ratio?
methylated seed oil
Crop Oil Concentrate is available at any co-op or farm store. Could be called COC as well. This is a petro chemical product, excellent for taking herbicides through the waxy leaf tissue as well as into the stump tissue. MSO or Modified Seed Oil could do the job too, this is an actual seed oil (soy, corn, sunflower extracted oils). Normally the use rate for crop oil is a minimum of 1% v/v or a pint/ac minimum. MSO is 1/4% to 1% v/v.
Will Round-Up on the stumps work?
Tyrander165 yes mixed 50/50 with water
Can we get the name of that song at the end of the video?
whats good to kill alder tree in am in maine
Is that different from Japanese honeysuckle? Thanks
Something called popcorn trees (tallow) is taking over my property.
What kind of dog is that? I need a good hunting / shed dog. Gorgeous pup.
Aussie!
Why not just burn it? No way you have time to saw that much honeysuckle.
Butiful dog
my deer eat honeysuckle but it's small bushes dispersed over large areas not a jungle like in the video
Where do you get 61% Triclopyr?
+Jeffrich308 www.keystonepestsolutions.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=353&gclid=Cj0KEQjwoM63BRDK_bf4_MeV3ZEBEiQAuQWqkQLvFALhhRHnkbAjViEBxsekGzZTeH_7JNuquCY82WMaAtkg8P8HAQ
Thanks!
Whats with these guys and vests? Arms don't get cold?
Grant Gonzalez 2 reasons...as your moving, you don’t want to be restricted when cutting and as your moving, your arms don’t feel it because of blood flow. Sounds weird but it could be 10 degrees and my arms and legs never get cold.
It's about keeping your core warm
Ok so honey suckle is browse and cover for deer....do you want it gone for the hardwood growth?
Why not fence the area and let goats solve your problem for you?
I don’t think goats are gonna eat two or three inch thick woody shrubs. But then again I’ve never raised goats.
There is vegetation that you want to save.
why is the honeysuckle bad?
It's very invasive and will take over choking out more desirable species.
ManagementAdvantage
You need to make a distinction between that bush "honeysuckle" that you have up north and real honeysuckle
that we have all over the South - which is a vine with extremely tender and nutritious leaves that deer love. It is a major and great food
source for southern deer. Until I was recommended by youtube to watch this vid I had never even heard of " bush honeysuckle." It does look
like a no good invasive plant, unlike are southern honeysuckle vines.
Big Mike Wetzel
See my below post.
Also note they are referring to JAPANESE bush honeysuckle which is a non-native invasive. There is a native bush honeysuckle that is uncommon (around me) and not what they're talking aboot.
I have a nice area where I know for a fact they feed at but there is a spot there also that looks like they bed too.. please contact me and maybe I can show you some pictures or check out my Instagram pics. Thanks
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That bush honey suckle looks like good cover for deer, I would have left it.
Too invasive. There are much better plants for cover out there than this stuff.
It's absolutely horrendous for deer habitat. It chokes all the natives out and provides ZERO in terms of browse. If you leave it, you're going to be looking at a lifeless understory of nothing in 10 years. They don't eat it, and they won't even rub it. Please pay attention to these guys and kill it on sight.
Your hurting your animals by giving them no where to hide.