I'm a huge believer in prescribed fire used for the encouragement of native plants on the landscape. Deer lived for eons on native vegetation before there ever was a food plot, a corn feeder, or even an ag field! Studies show a consistent high percentage of a deer's daily diet consists of native plant material. If you want the best deer habitat possible or the best turkey habitat, you have to include native species in the mix. Great video!!
My wildlife biologist sent me your link. I spent most of the day watching the videos. A totally different technique than my spray and disc method. I’m converted. The sensible land management methodologies are to replicate the way God does it. It’s kind of silly in retrospect how most food plotters got so far away from the natural plant cycles. I love your saying “never clean the table”. Thank you for sharing.
Outstanding segment, if for no other reason than 1) explaining "native vegetation and forbes", 2) using state conservation staff (sorely UNDER USED by hunters/conservationists) and 3) showing that even a PhD welcomes help outside his/her specificity! Another great one, Dr. Woods.
I just wanted to say thank you for this episode. I love the food plot and hunting tips but this has to be my favorite episode. I bought a small property that I’m managing for deer and hopefully turkey and quail. This episode gives me a renewed hope i can turn my small property into a wildlife paradise. Thanks again.
What a great episode, one of my favorites. Very informative and opens your mind to wildlife possibilities outside of established notions. Thank you for sharing.
Excellant video. I was so into video the time flew by leaving me wanting more. Awesome subject matter. I'd love to walk around with you guys identifying plants.
On hills there's also a day night cycle that happens after the sun goes down there's movement of air you can block hot air and cold air and condensation on a hilltop throughout the night in order to create a better condition for plants to grow
Where I live in West Virginia, we seem to fight Japanese stilt grass more than anything and I’ve heard that the seed can last in the ground for 7 years or more. We spray it every year, but it always comes right back the following year. Any recommendations on getting the upper hand on this invasive?
We have a lot of frost aster blooming in our fields right now, it looked similar to some of those white flowers. In any case, we probably need to do prescribed burns lol
Great information. Always looking to learn new things. Channel very informative Google Lens is a great tool identifying trees and plants in your area and don't need to get your masters in horticulture.
Where do your habitat management places take place? In the South eastern us we had a native wolf called the red wolf (Canis Rufus). The red wolf’s diet consists mostly of turkey nest predators, rodents, and deer (which they believe don’t have a significant impact on their numbers). They also push out coyotes and could greatly benefit you and other land managers.
We often work from Canada to south Florida. I schooled at Georgia and Clemson. Actually coyotes freely bred with red wolves and dilute thier population. Coyotes were part of the demise of red wolves throughout their range. That's why Red Wolves were protected along a portion of the coast in NC - there were no coyotes there at the time.
@@GrowingDeerTV Hey! I appreciate you getting back to me. They have what they are sure are pure red wolves, some speculate that one of the problems that cause red wolves to hybridize with coyotes is that there are not enough red wolves to sustain themselves, in fact, the dominant kind of red wolves "mistaken as coyotes" are breeding adults who get shot and their packs get broken up, since the wolf population is too small to support itself, they hybridize. Thanks so much for getting back, I appreciate your channel.
Hey Gang. I have 7 acres of prairie that consists of Milkweed, Queen Annes Lace, Bee Balm, Daisy, black eyed susans, tall white/yellow clover and a variety of grasses. Would you consider this a success? It is about the same yearly and I am not sure if I should do a spring burn or not? Thanks in advance.
Wouldn't it be good to create a grid pattern that's directly linked to Sun movement over the landscape between trees and grasses and shrubs instead of just a 40-acre 50 or 100 acre plot on top of a hill of grass
I don’t know how to fix this but I have land that I tried to turn a old hay field into a foodplot but the grasses keep coming back and can’t get a good brassica plot how can I fix this if there is a possibility please help.
Sure! Pasture grasses often need to be terminated with herbicide. Then I plant Eagle Seed Roundup Ready beans so the weeds can be controlled while a productive plot is growing! - grant
Very cool episode. So much knowledge shared. Do you have any wild parsnips in that area or your prairie? Wondering if there is a good way to control that by burning?
Jason - I'm not aware of any parsnips on The Proving Grounds. There's lots of Queen Anne's Lace. They look a bit alike but parsnips have yellow flowers. - grant
What are they talking about deep tap Roots that's a huge Plus it pulls up and continues to resperate water into the atmosphere through the plant and the environment
Are they really helping out the dear? They took cover off of a hilltop high point where you could see predators for miles and turned it into a baron grassland
Dan - Grazing can be a good tool if there are the appropriate fences, water sources, and someone with the stock and will manage them. Those resources aren't available to most.
Adam = no quail. We have great habitat but are surrounded by fescue pasture and high graded forest so there's no quail to populate The Proving Grounds. - grant
@@GrowingDeerTV That´s too bad. I´ve been watching your shows over the years always wandering, with so much great habitat, why you guys never talked about quail.
So basically they're enticing the deer out of cover out of range of water onto their little hillside gravesite with no camouflage or hiding places or anywhere to run to yeah I hope the dear huh
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I'm a huge believer in prescribed fire used for the encouragement of native plants on the landscape. Deer lived for eons on native vegetation before there ever was a food plot, a corn feeder, or even an ag field! Studies show a consistent high percentage of a deer's daily diet consists of native plant material. If you want the best deer habitat possible or the best turkey habitat, you have to include native species in the mix. Great video!!
I'm honored to be featured in one of your videos! Thank you for everything the team does!!
Michael Goga - Thanks for sharing the very cool video!!! - grant
My wildlife biologist sent me your link. I spent most of the day watching the videos. A totally different technique than my spray and disc method. I’m converted. The sensible land management methodologies are to replicate the way God does it. It’s kind of silly in retrospect how most food plotters got so far away from the natural plant cycles. I love your saying “never clean the table”. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Warren and please think the biologist that shared a link!
Grant and team this has to b one of the top episodes of all time ! Great info thanks for sharing !
John - Thank you for the kind words! = grant
Outstanding segment, if for no other reason than 1) explaining "native vegetation and forbes", 2) using state conservation staff (sorely UNDER USED by hunters/conservationists) and 3) showing that even a PhD welcomes help outside his/her specificity! Another great one, Dr. Woods.
Thanks Ghillie!
I just wanted to say thank you for this episode. I love the food plot and hunting tips but this has to be my favorite episode. I bought a small property that I’m managing for deer and hopefully turkey and quail. This episode gives me a renewed hope i can turn my small property into a wildlife paradise. Thanks again.
Mr. Bowers - Great! I look forward to hearing about your project! grant
Awesome episode! very informative! would love to have another episode like this that goes over tree and bush types.
Kenneth - That's a great idea! - grant
Great Episode! Keep it up! Blessings to the whole Growing Deer team!
Thanks Von! - grant
What a great episode, one of my favorites. Very informative and opens your mind to wildlife possibilities outside of established notions. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching Ronnie! - grant
Great video! I could watch this type of material for hours.
Thanks and if you could produce more of these videos.
Buck - Thanks! - grant
Can’t believe I just found this. So informative! Great job guys!
Thanks!
Excellant video. I was so into video the time flew by leaving me wanting more. Awesome subject matter. I'd love to walk around with you guys identifying plants.
Thanks! - grant
Super informative I truly appreciate this video thank you Doctor Grant
Thanks Steve for the encouraging words!
On hills there's also a day night cycle that happens after the sun goes down there's movement of air you can block hot air and cold air and condensation on a hilltop throughout the night in order to create a better condition for plants to grow
This was a fun episode Grant! Congrats on your conservation award as well, I saw it in the Conservationist magazine.
Brent - Thanks! I've lived a very blessed life! - grant
One of the best episodes. Thank you.
Jim - Thank you for the kind words! - grant
Very good episode. Really like the native education.
Thanks Brian!
Great video as always! 43 days till season in Maryland...but who’s counting lol 🦌
Thanks Aaron! - grant
Your videos are really helping me in my hunting seasons thank you
That's our mission - to help others enjoy creation! - grant
I just discovered this channel very informative and interesting. Thank you
Andrea - Glad you joined us!
Same here in ohio just recently saw our first poults much smaller than the same time last year
Christopher - It's been an abnormal spring! =- grant
Where I live in West Virginia, we seem to fight Japanese stilt grass more than anything and I’ve heard that the seed can last in the ground for 7 years or more. We spray it every year, but it always comes right back the following year. Any recommendations on getting the upper hand on this invasive?
I Really enjoyed this video. Would it be possible for you guys to do another segment on this topic.
Tommy - Sure! I enjoyed touring with and learning from the ladies! - grant
Very informative video!
We have a lot of frost aster blooming in our fields right now, it looked similar to some of those white flowers. In any case, we probably need to do prescribed burns lol
Micah - I hope you get trained and do a prescribed fire soon! Fire is a great habitat improvement tool!
@@GrowingDeerTV It would be very good! Hopefully next year we can get it done.
Great job! Great video👍🤠
John - Thanks! - grant
Although there is some nice sumac on the east side and tastes great and a gyro
Great information. Always looking to learn new things. Channel very informative
Google Lens is a great tool identifying trees and plants in your area and don't need to get your masters in horticulture.
Thanks for sharing! = grant
Once again, private sector showing the government sector how it’s done. Keep it up Grant!!
Susan Farington is very wise! I've learned a lot from her.
Where do your habitat management places take place? In the South eastern us we had a native wolf called the red wolf (Canis Rufus). The red wolf’s diet consists mostly of turkey nest predators, rodents, and deer (which they believe don’t have a significant impact on their numbers). They also push out coyotes and could greatly benefit you and other land managers.
We often work from Canada to south Florida. I schooled at Georgia and Clemson. Actually coyotes freely bred with red wolves and dilute thier population. Coyotes were part of the demise of red wolves throughout their range. That's why Red Wolves were protected along a portion of the coast in NC - there were no coyotes there at the time.
@@GrowingDeerTV Hey! I appreciate you getting back to me. They have what they are sure are pure red wolves, some speculate that one of the problems that cause red wolves to hybridize with coyotes is that there are not enough red wolves to sustain themselves, in fact, the dominant kind of red wolves "mistaken as coyotes" are breeding adults who get shot and their packs get broken up, since the wolf population is too small to support itself, they hybridize.
Thanks so much for getting back, I appreciate your channel.
Great video more like it please.
Thanks Fred! We will!!
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michael jeffries - Thanks for the kind words!
Hey Gang. I have 7 acres of prairie that consists of Milkweed, Queen Annes Lace, Bee Balm, Daisy, black eyed susans, tall white/yellow clover and a variety of grasses. Would you consider this a success? It is about the same yearly and I am not sure if I should do a spring burn or not? Thanks in advance.
Silver - It sounds like nice habitat! Using prescribed fire will increase the species diversity and likely improve the habitat quality. - grant
Wouldn't it be good to create a grid pattern that's directly linked to Sun movement over the landscape between trees and grasses and shrubs instead of just a 40-acre 50 or 100 acre plot on top of a hill of grass
I don’t know how to fix this but I have land that I tried to turn a old hay field into a foodplot but the grasses keep coming back and can’t get a good brassica plot how can I fix this if there is a possibility please help.
Sure! Pasture grasses often need to be terminated with herbicide. Then I plant Eagle Seed Roundup Ready beans so the weeds can be controlled while a productive plot is growing! - grant
Very cool episode. So much knowledge shared. Do you have any wild parsnips in that area or your prairie? Wondering if there is a good way to control that by burning?
Jason - I'm not aware of any parsnips on The Proving Grounds. There's lots of Queen Anne's Lace. They look a bit alike but parsnips have yellow flowers. - grant
Really there are only a few things to consider when planting plants water exchange thermal exchange and radioactive exchange
Any tips for doing prescribed burns on small tracks of land?
Same techniques as we use. South Carolina has a very good prescribed fire class taught by the forestry commision! - grant
@@GrowingDeerTV Thanks, I will check in to that.
What are they talking about deep tap Roots that's a huge Plus it pulls up and continues to resperate water into the atmosphere through the plant and the environment
Thank you for the valuable information I am from a subscriber from the state of Iraq
Hussam - I hope our paths cross soon! Do you hunt in Iraq? - grant
Mullen is also very good for the respiratory system. Fyi
Great! How's it used? It's an invasive exotic species. I wonder if there's a native species that could be used?
Great video!
Thanks!
You think you want to keep your grass project to the floodplains down in the valleys
Holden landscape pulls nutrients up from under the Earth and puts it back on top to bigger invigorate the topsoil
Awsome content
Thanks!
Put oaks being deciduous trees provide no shelter in the winter
Chances are the deer won't be caught dead up there if they can help it seeing how on top of a hillside water seems scarce as well
Are they really helping out the dear? They took cover off of a hilltop high point where you could see predators for miles and turned it into a baron grassland
Or if anyone study the acoustics or the auditoriums you would realize that sound travels uphill
hello growing dear team
Hey!
Burn Burn Burn. How about high density, multi-species grazing? Fire is one tool, you seem to use it as though it is your only option.
Dan - Grazing can be a good tool if there are the appropriate fences, water sources, and someone with the stock and will manage them. Those resources aren't available to most.
Oh and air movement
Although grasses do a really good job but don't blame it on the dear
I was suprised a few months ago to find out horsenettle was native
Micah - That's a tough plant.
@@GrowingDeerTV I mean, at least it may be beneficial in some way for the environment. But for sure it can be difficult.
And by default or biodiverse healthy wildlife
what about poison sumac in the Northeast? useful for deer or just a pain in the butt?
Any quail on the farm?
Adam = no quail. We have great habitat but are surrounded by fescue pasture and high graded forest so there's no quail to populate The Proving Grounds. - grant
@@GrowingDeerTV That´s too bad. I´ve been watching your shows over the years always wandering, with so much great habitat, why you guys never talked about quail.
Balance the checkbook and you should have good plants
And also is good on a steak
Can you say Quail?
Scott - Native vegetation in this area is great quail habitat!
Yeah don't let natural trees grow and thrive to hold any soil left on a hilltop in place or cover to reduce erosion
Yea! None of that greek and Latin mashed together with some jawbreaking word no one can say. (Scientific names for species)
Ha! I'm too much of a hillbilly for that!
@@GrowingDeerTV one can be educated out of his sanity. I think it happens more often than not these days.
I hope they're going to add some salt licks up there for those poor dear
I think she just tried to show poison ivy poison oak and poison sumac
So basically they're enticing the deer out of cover out of range of water onto their little hillside gravesite with no camouflage or hiding places or anywhere to run to yeah I hope the dear huh
Whatever. Coliseum
Good job growing weeds again on a hilltop
God has been tens of thousands of years and they still can't figure out monoculture is killing everything