CuivreDog
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In the spirit of getting our new site up and running I thought I would take the time to start my own land tour to give you guys an idea of the improvements we have made in the interest of wildlife habitat improvement on our place we call Cuivre Farms. The name comes from a small river (Cuivre River) that drains a year round creek that runs along the western edge of our property.
To give you a little background, in 1996 we purchased 110 acres in Lincoln County, MO with the intention of eventually building the house of our dreams on the property at some time in the future. The land consisted of about 107 heavily timbered wooded acres and a small 3 acre overgrown field when we made the initial purchase.
Both my wife and I had grown up in suburban St. Louis, and when we married in 1985 we moved to a home on 3 acres in what was then a "rural area" about 25 miles east of our current home place. By 1998, the area around our rural home that was once surrounded by agricultural fields was being gobbled up by small subdivisions popping up at an alarming rate. The westward expansion of the St. Louis area was taking over our once private little haven. We knew it was only a matter of time before it was going to be like living in suburbia again so we started our hunt for a new place to call home in 1994. After spending two years looking for the right place with an existing home on the amount of acreage we were interested in, we finally gave up and decided to expand our search to raw land and build our dream home.
We found the place of our dreams in 1996 when 212 acres came up for sale in an area that we had identified we would be interested in living. We parceled off 110 of those acres to create what is currently Cuivre Farms. In the first two years of ownership it was mainly just my hunting playground and a place fairly close to home to relax and unwind on the weekends. We cleared trees and constructed a three acre lake that would eventually become the site of our new home. Initially, we set a camping trailer on the lake to enjoy the new place and to serve as hunting camp until we got our home built.
Construction on our new home was begun in 1998 so we were absentee landowners for the first two years but it gave us the opportunity to really get a "feel" for the place and a couple hunting seasons to get a handle on how the wildlife actually used our property before starting construction.
Please come along as I share some of the improvements we've made over the last twenty years in an attempt to create our own little wildlife paradise and the place we call home!
To give you a little background, in 1996 we purchased 110 acres in Lincoln County, MO with the intention of eventually building the house of our dreams on the property at some time in the future. The land consisted of about 107 heavily timbered wooded acres and a small 3 acre overgrown field when we made the initial purchase.
Both my wife and I had grown up in suburban St. Louis, and when we married in 1985 we moved to a home on 3 acres in what was then a "rural area" about 25 miles east of our current home place. By 1998, the area around our rural home that was once surrounded by agricultural fields was being gobbled up by small subdivisions popping up at an alarming rate. The westward expansion of the St. Louis area was taking over our once private little haven. We knew it was only a matter of time before it was going to be like living in suburbia again so we started our hunt for a new place to call home in 1994. After spending two years looking for the right place with an existing home on the amount of acreage we were interested in, we finally gave up and decided to expand our search to raw land and build our dream home.
We found the place of our dreams in 1996 when 212 acres came up for sale in an area that we had identified we would be interested in living. We parceled off 110 of those acres to create what is currently Cuivre Farms. In the first two years of ownership it was mainly just my hunting playground and a place fairly close to home to relax and unwind on the weekends. We cleared trees and constructed a three acre lake that would eventually become the site of our new home. Initially, we set a camping trailer on the lake to enjoy the new place and to serve as hunting camp until we got our home built.
Construction on our new home was begun in 1998 so we were absentee landowners for the first two years but it gave us the opportunity to really get a "feel" for the place and a couple hunting seasons to get a handle on how the wildlife actually used our property before starting construction.
Please come along as I share some of the improvements we've made over the last twenty years in an attempt to create our own little wildlife paradise and the place we call home!
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