Six Years of Habitat Restoration: Reaping the Rewards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- From an unproductive, closed-canopy forest to a thriving wildlife habitat, witness the progress made! Will and Drew have made incredible progress in 6 years time. Patience and strategic planning have resulted in impressive improvements, showcasing the importance of intentional and sustainable practices. Follow along to learn how you can create high-quality wildlife habitats!
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Fire Recommendations
2:37 Hunting Success - How to Improve Habitat to Increase Hunting Opportunities
8:57 Girdling / Hack & Squirt results
18:02 Native Habitat Productivity - Native Grass or Native Grasses and Forbs?
21:50 Hunting Success Through the Years
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Showing these updates really highlights how well this works. Thanks for the follow ups..
What an awesome video. Definitely good motivation to get back in the woods and to continue TSI projects.
Love the longer video. Little more explanation and 1st hand insight
Looks like a savannah. Great work guys. Bet it’s full of game.
Congratulations Will and Drew! What great results due to hard and smart work! Patrick Wolf, WI
Would definitely thin that NWSG stand, and overseed a forb mix after a burn. Definitely add some thicket forming shrubs and you won't be able to keep the deer out. Great looking property, I wish more people would take this level of initiative.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Great episode Daniel.
That native grass field would be a good candidate to turn into an Old Field habitat.
I’ve got a farm in Nebraska where like you, I drilled in a field of native grass. It’s a 16 acre field and like you I don’t see much of any deer using it other than passing through. So this year I took four interior areas and sprayed 2 quarts of glyphosate per acre. Doing that kind of scared me but, it thinned the native grass down so that there was ample area for Forbes and for deer to bed.
Daron - Great work! Using fire at different times of year also helps increase the diversity in native grass stands/promotes forbs and other native species.
Looks like the native grass stand could be improved by adding adaptive grazing of cattle to the property. Large herbivores were always a part of natural ecosystems. We don’t have bison or elk so we currently use cattle as a substitute.
Are you missing a key component of pre-settlement grasslands? Large ruminant grazers like buffalo, which are now extinct from the region? That grass supported other game beyond deer and turkey.
21:00 man.. bet they could fatten up a couple beef cows on all that grass
CRP fields are amazing places for deer to feed and bed. There are a lot of weed type broadleaf plants that get waist to chest high that the deer feed on and bed in. I have put grassy type food plots in and trail cameras showed the deer walking thru it and don't even put their head down to eat it. I mowed some trails for access at the edge of the CRP and raised the mower deck up to 5 inches and the clover came on like a carpet in the trails. The ag fields stayed in CRP for two years. Bucks went to an older age class, and were actually showing up during the daylight hours on trail camera. Farmer took the property out of CRP third year, planted soybeans. Trophy deer went nocturnal and turkeys disappeared. Hunting went to crap.
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Would a growing season burn on the grass field select for more forbs and less grass?
Luke - Fire rarely terminates perennial grasses. However, growing season burns often do result in more diversity of plant species.
The only problem with fire is the forestry commission charging 50$ a acre. Any ways to minimize that cost? I can make the fire lines myself
Wow - I've never heard of a state charging that much. Which state quoted you that rate? Most folks take a class or two, get some experience on a well-planned fire and then burn on their own property.
@@GrowingDeerTV I’m in southeast Arkansas unfortunately
Any chance you could contact a college with a wildlife/forestry program and have them do it? I know for my forestry class we did our burn training and wildland firefighting training on city, state, and some private land.
So...the land owners created a monoculture with white oaks, or are at least going that way?
No - whites and reds (which are families) and there are several species in those families. Not sure how you interpreted this - let alone ignoring the gads of herbaceous species present now were there was primarily only dead leaves.