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    Clearing trails

    The last few years here in the southern tier of NY have been hard on our Ashe trees. The emarald Ashe borers have decimated 90% of the Ashe trees on my property. We were up clearing the trails and cut up over 2 cord of wood just from the trees that fell across the trails. We even had a couple of...
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    Melanistic deer

    I have seen several albino and white deer. I had a piebald deer in my scope ( no I did not shoot). This week I saw a large doe that was black. Not shiny black like a bear but definitely black. I had read of this coloration and seen pictures but in my56 years of deer observation and hunting this...
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    Wild cherry trees

    The one fruit tree that seemed to escape the late may frost is the wild cherry trees they are absolutely sagging with cherries. Looks like a good acorn crop but here in NY our apples pears and grapes took it on the chin with very sparse fruit.
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    Trimming shooting lanes

    My son and I were trimming shooting lanes when this guy showed up on the edge of the food plot.
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    Honeysuckle trim back from access roads

    Seems every year there is more to trim. I don’t want to remove as they are a good food and cover plant. They must grow 3 feet a year. Anyone have any time saving tips on pruning honeysuckle?
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    Freezing frost during bloom

    Myself, wife ,son and friend went up and weeded around our fruit trees as well as fertilized, mulched and trimmed them. We found a discouraging situation. We had several apple trees we were expecting our first fruit on this year. However a freezing frost during bloom time killed all the buds...
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    Frost seeding

    I have been researching frost seeding clover food plots. I am going to try it for the first time this year. Does anyone here have any experience or tips to offer? Will oats germinate if just frost seeded? Thank you.
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    Heart nut trees

    Has Anyone heard of or planted heart nut trees for wildlife?
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    Radishes and turnips

    Deer are digging my radish and turnips up and eating them already. Probably because we just had our first frost a week ago. Central NY.
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    Curious deer

    My wife and son accompanied me to water out newly planted fruit and nut trees this evening. It has been such a dry summer so we added some plant food to the water and set out to water about 25 new trees in our mule. Trimmed back some trails while working our way around the property. Finished up...
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    Late season ripening apples.

    What are the latest ripening apple varieties?
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    Gypsy moth caterpillars

    Darn things are eating the leaves off all the oaks and fruit trees around my neck of the woods. Huge old Whit oak in my front yard has no leaves left on it. My fruit trees are semi dwarfs so I have been able to spray and fertilize all at the same time with the bodies of dead caterpillars. Can’t...
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    Bears hunting fawns

    I was mowing trails on my hunting property and came around a corner and there 20 feet away was a bear in the middle of the trail. When I stopped it stood up on its hind legs and faced the mower. Knew I couldn’t outrun it on a mower so revved the motor several times and it dropped down and ran...
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