What you doing for wildlife

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captaincoot

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Alright it's getting time to start thinking:eek: What you going to do this year to help Gods creatures?:thumbsup: Is it donate money to favorite conservation group. Maybe its starting or improving an area. Hopefully its not do nothing:mad: My thing is woodduck and mallard houses and working on my chicken habitat. Thinking about putting new honey suckle around building site 3-4 rows wide. Alright time for you guys and gals to brag about the BIG PROJECT:)
 
Spent most of the week getting fire breaks ready on the area. Mowed them first then went back and disked about 16 feet in the 24-36 foot mowed strips. Have about 500-600 acres ready to go. Need some higher humidity and lower wind plus a crew. At lest 3 of the burns are part of my patch burn/patch graze program. Cattle go on April 15. I'll start dewatering marshes soon. The pintails have moved in and will be advancing north soon. I'll dewater slowly to try and encourage better plant germination. We're short of help this spring due to politicians showing their tookus. I'm slated to also help burn on 3 other areas, so we'll have to hook it to get everything done. I have the forester coming out to help plan a burn where I cut understory cedars out of a 55 acre patch. We have log piles some 8 feet tall and I'm worried about the size and duration of the fire with 2 houses across the road. I had 2 different contractors begging to chip the logs........chickened out. Much more on my docket, but this is the fun stuff!
 
On some of crp that got reentered in the program we have to have 10 acres of pollinator cover to make it eligible for crp so will work on that and plant my normal food plots, which was needed bad this year. Also hopefully when the wind is right and there is high humidity will try and burn some crp and cp33. We have no pheasants where I live but still have a few quail so Iam still trying to help them out the best I know how.
 
I do plant some winter wheat in the fall for deer. I have been feeding deer and lots of turkeys in the back yard all winter with shelled corn. Snow is deep at my house so all the trails are used by all critters. It is funny to watch turkeys in snow that is belly deep to the deer! Haven't seen a pheasant around in over 3 months.
 
Prairie Drifter said:
Spent most of the week getting fire breaks ready on the area. Mowed them first then went back and disked about 16 feet in the 24-36 foot mowed strips. Have about 500-600 acres ready to go. Need some higher humidity and lower wind plus a crew. At lest 3 of the burns are part of my patch burn/patch graze program. Cattle go on April 15. I'll start dewatering marshes soon. The pintails have moved in and will be advancing north soon. I'll dewater slowly to try and encourage better plant germination. We're short of help this spring due to politicians showing their tookus. I'm slated to also help burn on 3 other areas, so we'll have to hook it to get everything done. I have the forester coming out to help plan a burn where I cut understory cedars out of a 55 acre patch. We have log piles some 8 feet tall and I'm worried about the size and duration of the fire with 2 houses across the road. I had 2 different contractors begging to chip the logs........chickened out. Much more on my docket, but this is the fun stuff!
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This ought to be good for the birds. :thumbsup:
 
I am planning a 4 acre pollinator plot, Buffers around all my crop fields, some prescribed burns, and tree removal.

And yes, I am a rookie ;)
 
Food Plots

We normally plant about 20 acres of food plots at an old farmstead. This year we will put in four, 1 1/2 acre strips of corn/sorgum in a 13 Acre prairie hay plot. Plus a one acre PF Blizzard buster plot next too 5 acres of trees and Canary Grass. We also just purchased another 40 acre old Farm stead, where we are attempting to get the stink weed (rag weed/worm wood) under control. 18 acres of corn with some millet strips along with a couple rows of lilocs. Thats about all we can maintain this year. Hoping for a good weather year!! Would like to remove the dead trees in the tree belt and replace with cedars or other short bush type trees. Too Many places for the hawks to hang out and dive bomb the younger birds.... Viking
 
With some help from another guy I hope to expand the food plot we planted the past couple of years. I will also address the needs of some CREP land that a local club has. We may also make some brush piles at the club.
 
I'm limited these days to how much I can do:(, but I'm still working with landowners, giving advise on improving conditions on their land to increase pheasant numbers. This spring I'll be distributing food plots. Still waiting on some land to get enrolled into CRP for one gentleman. Great area with potential to increase bird numbers through installing nesting cover/brood rearing cover. Once that goes through I'll be out there to help the landowner out as needed i.e. helping him out with burning, chainsawing, herbicide, etc.

The PF drill needs some repairing. A landowner needs it to drill Switch-grass. Myself and another gentleman need to get that thing going again. There's a few frozen parts on it. Nothing major.

I also have a project with re-introducing pheasants onto a landowners property. No hunting pheasant right out there for now. Time will tell with how this one goes, but I'm certain I can get a good breeding stock going out there.:)
 
Been busy doing some cedar removal on a large scale with the bobcat tree cutter. Did a prescribed burn a few weeks ago about 400 acres total burned area. I have been doing some predator control on coyotes and if all works out with the weather this weekend we will have two days with USDA helicopter for feral hog eradication.
 
OKIEGunner said:
Been busy doing some cedar removal on a large scale with the bobcat tree cutter. Did a prescribed burn a few weeks ago about 400 acres total burned area. I have been doing some predator control on coyotes and if all works out with the weather this weekend we will have two days with USDA helicopter for feral hog eradication.
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How do you like the Bobcat tree cutter?
 
I will take some pictures and post them. Awesome system.:thumbsup:
 
bushes on order

Just called the soil conservation office and ordered 2 bundles of 25 Liloics to plant this Spring. So excited to plant some more cover. Just have to figure out if I'm adding to the south side of the tree belt or going to add something new. The Places i'd like to plant them are low areas and I don't think Liloics like too much moisture. viking
 
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