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Might have to see if I can find that one. Grant is usually pretty solid on his info. However, all the research projects/papers I know of point to the opposite of that. There is no reason for tick populations to be higher. Besides the ticks killed in the fire. Ticks need a moist shady environment...

Have you made walnut syrup before? If so did you like the taste.... I guess if you have you must have liked it or you wouldn't be doing it again! LOL We have a good number of walnuts on our land and the neighbors do as well. I am sure I have enough trees to make 60 gallons of sap in short order...

I really want to try and tap some walnuts in the future. I heard it is better than maple and I have enough walnuts to give it a try. Weather is so unpredictable here that I feel like trying to get the right highs and lows would be a real crap shoot.

Burning your property will seriously decrease the number of ticks. Tick numbers in high enough levels will blind and even kill fawns outright from what I have read. Another side effect of Eastern Red Cedar over taking the landscape is that they have actually documented increased numbers of...

Random, small patches are great quail habitat. However, I agree with everything else above that eradication or a at least a solid attempt is necessary to keep them from overtaking a place. Those SOBs on my place always seem to grab when you are walking to a deer stand in the dark!

Good luck!

Elk, actual harvest though Black Bear.

You will definitely want to get your plot to 6.5 or even closer to 7.0 if you can. A couple of things your photo is showing me. One rye germination is pretty good on anything, including concrete and the back of pickup trucks; growth after germination is something else. Cereal rye is a good cover...

What do your soil tests say? No sense in liming or fertilizing unless you have done soil tests. Maybe I missed that information?

Looks like it would be a killer spot for a food plot or a couple of small ones at least.

If you want the best way, burn it off in late February, wait for the grass to green up and then hit it with glyphosate (spraying now will give you less than desirable results). Clethodim will work, but not nearly as well as glyphosate, and since you are looking to establish a clover plot...

Good neighbors are priceless if you are an absentee landowner.

I used to be a strong believer in "Ever Calm", had numerous old does get downwind of me at times. While they knew something wasnt quite right, they didn't blow and stomp and alert every other deer around. I still use it but, with that said I rarely hunt when the wind is not in my favor. Clean...

I would have to do a full body mount if I ever shot something like that.

Actually you don't need 2 varieties to pollinate a triploid like Arkansas Black. Just a single variety with overlapping bloom time is enough to pollinate the Ark Black. Its that the pollen produced by Arkansas Black is unable to pollinate other varieties. If you planted only 2 apple trees that...