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doing a select harvest on out property this year. mature/damaged trees. ive seen the marked trees that are being taken and am okay with it. but am still nervous about how its gonna look when all said and done but also excited in a way. i bought the land for hunting and think this is the best thing for it. will have somne clean up afterwards though. . 39 acres worth
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Re: logging
i had my land logged out last year. its good for the woods in the future, but as for your hunting the next few years it will be slower..im my woods, we had a select cut and the deer really bed in the tree tops but the woods is more open and the deer dont "hang" in there as much..now in another aspect, we had another one of our woods logged out 6 years ago and the deer just flock to that part of the farm..its so thick in that woods its hard to walk in. so as far as logging goes, the first few years will be slower than normal but as soon as the under growth comes up, your hunting is awesome..its a tough thing to do, but if you have more than 1 piece of woods, i would reccommend doing one woods one year and the other woods 3 years later, that way the deer have a thick woods to still go into and bed..
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I have seen the hunting improve the next season already if the trees are taken in the right spots. Trouble is trying to convince the loggers of what you want vs. what they want.
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Re: logging
right, it opens up the woods to understory growth and thickens the woods up for more browse and bedding cover
Years 2-5 after selective cut logging can be very good
Years 2-5 after selective cut logging can be very good
dan wrote:I have seen the hunting improve the next season already if the trees are taken in the right spots. Trouble is trying to convince the loggers of what you want vs. what they want.
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Sunlight to the understory is key to thickening up the woods. Selective cuts don't always open the canopy enough to get good under-growth. Also, timber and pulp prices are low right now so this might be a challenge but if you have areas of mature popple or aspen, consider clear cutting in 1/2 to 3 ac. patches. You'll be amazed at how qickly it regrows and very thick. The logger's may not offer you anything to do this but consider your "check" the added cover and diversity.
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If you drop trees now, the deer will flock to eat the browse that comes down from the tops. It really helps a lot more than it hurts.
A buck will see you three times, and hear you twice, but he's only gonna smell you once.
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