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Have you considered white pine?

No more than 2 year old based on back molar not fully erputed and general lack of wear. But those premolars look fresh. So fresh that based on the pics I can't rule out long yearling, or 19-20 month old deer. I posted above after looking at pics, but before reading your post above. Based on...

You must cut the tarsal and then use the same knife to cut the meat. No other explanation. And a waste.

I did a harvest on my property last year, and I took a bunch of pics and videos. I had a thread on here about the cut at the time. Finally got around to making a youtube video of it. I really enjoy managing the timber for value and wildlife. The video I made largely so my sons can look back...

The clearcut area, have you considered planting some of that back with shortleaf pine instead of loblolly? It has a longer growth cycle, but there are benefits to shortleaf and in my state there are federal incentives available to plant acreage in shortleaf over loblolly.

So they moved in on my place and started cutting on Dec 7th, and finished up a couple days before Christmas. Basically 2 weeks of logging and a couple days setting up/breaking down. I took a lot of pics of before and after, and a lot of short videos, not of the logging but the before and...

Basically site specific stuff like "clearcut these b/c..." or "leave this group because they're protecting the rest of the stand from wind" or " harvest all mature trees in this section to release the young trees." I feel like I have a decent knowledge base but still plenty of ideas that needed...

The day after I last posted, out of the blue I got calls and emails from the state forester. Told him I was making arrangements for a cut. So he made it a rush to get me on the schedule for a walk through. Two of them came out yesterday and we walked through the portions of my property that I...

I met with the logger today and things went very well. Even though I had never met him before, he did a good job with the last cut which was just a small pine thinning 7 years ago, and so I am optimistic things will work out this time. He's seems eager for the job. He estimated 30 days to...

26 does is neglible. I have trapped on farms that killed hundreds with damage permits. The fact is that massive ag crops attract huge numbers of deer. I'm not seeing any deer this bow season because the white oaks on my place are a bust. However, I know the deer have shifted to the corn...

So here I am almost a year later following up on this. I have a walk through set up with a logger on Sunday, same guy who did the cut last time 7 years ago. I was pleased with the job he did, although this is the first time I ever spoke to him. He remembered the place and called me back right...

I took a look at this plot this afternoon. Last year it was November when I noticed the persimmons and there were 3 on the tree. Today it is completely loaded with easily a couple hundred. It's a small tree so I hope it will be a great producer for years to come. There's 5-6 other persimmon...

I lived in and hunted in Fayette County KY for 6 years. I was young and was just excited to get a bow shot at any deer back then so looking back I somewhat squandered some of the best hunting years I will ever have had. But the genetics and soil in KY combine to make it extremely difficult to...

I did break the drought Saturday afternoon. I took my wife out in an attempt to get her first deer. We went to a stand that has been hot for many years, but strangely cold this year since the first of November. Over looks a funnel between two blocks of timber. 20 minutes into our sit and...

Did you intentionally put the backcut this high or is this a mistake? This tree has no hinge.