What wildlife management tool causes the most fear and yet creates the most wildlife habitat for the least amount of monetary input? Fire. Controlled burning is an incredibly powerful tool in the wildlife habitat manager's tool box. An entire blog series could be written on controlled burning. There is no doubt that ecological succession happens naturally, unfortunately interference by humans has led to drastic changes in vegetation types on the the landscape. Dormant Season

Sometimes we get a little envious of those folks who say their farm/land encompasses alot of acres. We all dream of maybe owning a bigger farm or more land when managing for wildlife. Bigger is better, right? Have you ever heard folks say their 40 acres hunts like 100 acres? Or that even though they own 100 acres they only have a couple of favorite locations within the 100 acres that they usually hunt. What that really boils down to is how useable your property is to wildlife

In the last blog I touched on the value of shrubs as a food source for White-tailed deer, I will continue on with the shrub theme this week. Dormant shrubs provide most of a deer's browse in the Winter months, especially in non-Ag areas. Shrubs also benefit other wildlife besides deer. Shrubs go well beyond being beneficial for just deer. Shrubs when strategically planted can be a big boost to turkey populations. Obviously, turkeys will eat some of the berries produced by shr

This is about the time of year we start noticing bucks dropping their antlers. Some may have dropped their antlers quite some time ago. If a buck dropped his antlers a good while back, especially a large mature buck, that could be sign of poor body condition, high stress levels or injury. Antlers are secondary to a buck's overall body condition. In the previous blog I talked about "Maternal Effect", in a sense antlers are an indication of a bucks overall quality of health. Do

Maternal effect has a big role in just how big those antlers will be on that mature buck