Regen or food plot...

[catscratch]

Shortly after a logger took a couple of walnut and oak from this spot in the forest I went in and cleaned it up, fenced it from cattle, and planted a foodplot. Deer used it a lot but mostly right at dark or at night. I took the fence down and let it go back to whatever was in the seed bank.<br />It's now a glorious mess and deer are in it throughout the day on a very regular basis. I go in every couple of yrs and do some work to keep it bushy and at deer level.<br />Normal forest view:<br />

<br /><br />Pic from the same spot, but pointed at the regen:<br />

<br /><br />I clean around some better trees to give them a chance like this oak surrounded by hedge:<br />

<br /><br />Some trees are pruned so that the can grow taller. I actually want some nice straight hedge growing here:<br />

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<br /><br />Some are hinged:<br />

<br /><br />Some are coppiced:<br />

<br /><br />Multilevel food and cover source and the deer love it. Much better use than when it was a plot!<br /><br />Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

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[Chummer]

I plan on doing that to 20-30 acres
Looks great!

 

[catscratch]

I plan on doing that to 20-30 acres
Looks great!

20-30 acres is a LOT! Once it comes up in brush it's hard to cut to maintain. I bet that would make a tremendous area for the deer though! I hope you take; before, during, and after pics.

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[Chummer]

20-30 acres is a LOT! Once it comes up in brush it's hard to cut to maintain. I bet that would make a tremendous area for the deer though! I hope you take; before, during, and after pics.

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I try to document my projects but I am bad at it. This area was logged summer of '15 and 7 acres was cut very heavy so I have a head start on it. I plan on only leaving future money trees (maple,cherry), that leaves me a lot of birch, beeche, and crooked trees to drop. I also want to add in some Norway Spruce but that didn't go so well last year. I am expecting 3-5 years before this property will hold deer. Right now it is wide open other than some smaller bedding areas I hinged last year.