Are you a golfer? Well I am not really much of one, but I play occasionally for something social to do. If you are a golfer, do you ever try to hit your golf ball out of the deep rough? (dense grass and weeds for all the non-golfers) Where are you going with this you might be asking? A newly hatched quail chick is smaller than a golf ball and turkey chicks are slightly larger. A great test to see if you have suitable habitat for both species of chicks is whether or not you ca

With insane land prices many of us cannot buy large tracts of land for merely recreational purposes. Even if we can, isn't it still a positive to make some income off of that land? While timbered areas can provide logging opportunities, grasslands provide income most often from grazing or haying. Depending on the topography and our available resources to either put up our own hay or finding someone in our immediate area to hire to put up hay, grazing may provide a less costly

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

Does trapping pay? I am not talking about in terms of dollars and cents. There are two camps when it comes to trapping predators. Those...

If you are interested in creating habitat for Northern Bob-white quail and turkeys, "grassland" habitat is a very important component of...

While all living creatures need water to some degree should you bother with including water sources on your habitat plan? I say yes. Just...

In the last blog I talked about food sources, both native and man-made (food plots) and considerations to take into account regarding lay...

In the last post we talked about White-tailed Deer and their habitat needs. While the main components of turkey and quail habitat are the...