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Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby comeback_kid » Wed May 31, 2017 2:12 pm

I am doing some map scouting for a new area I plan to hunt this year. I have never hunted a marsh before and am wondering if the gaps I see on the photos here are deer trails or just something else? Can you identify deer crossings via Google Earth?

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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby PK_ » Wed May 31, 2017 2:16 pm

Yes. When they connect high ground. When they connect deeper water sections then they are beaver/otter etc... or where the water drains/flows.
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Unread postby stash59 » Wed May 31, 2017 2:25 pm

Zoom way in close just before it gets fuzzy. You'll see them and they will be pretty obvious.
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Unread postby Bigb » Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:16 am

That would be a good spot to put a camera. I'd put it about 8 feet high and angle it down at the trail. Let it run for about a month and see what you get.

Google maps is also good for picking up trail in CRP as well. I have a couple spots that really show up on Google earth in the fall winter. The best thing to do is go back on images and find one that is taken in November to April, I think that time frame is MUCH easier at spotting trails than the months with leaves on the trees.
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Unread postby Clink » Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:02 am

Throw a couple hours of scouting at it! :L:
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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby rfickes87 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:08 am

Bigb wrote:That would be a good spot to put a camera. I'd put it about 8 feet high and angle it down at the trail. Let it run for about a month and see what you get.

Google maps is also good for picking up trail in CRP as well. I have a couple spots that really show up on Google earth in the fall winter. The best thing to do is go back on images and find one that is taken in November to April, I think that time frame is MUCH easier at spotting trails than the months with leaves on the trees.


Just this week I notice this same thing in a public CRP I hunt! I was thinking at first "ah no way" but I'm convinced its deer trails. Especially after reading you guys say the same thing.
Trails I saw were almost all on the east edge of the field.
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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby Dewey » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:09 am

Resolution on aerials is getting pretty amazing compared to even 5 years ago. In 2013 I killed a buck on opening day. Easiest way to drag him out was a direct route straight thru waist high marsh grasses busting trail as we went. About a month later the aerials were updated and I could easily see my drag trail from the kill site all the way to my truck. :o

Since then resolution has gotten even better. Deer trails are extremely easy to see now in marshes and swamps without a lot of overhead vegetation. Sure makes cyberscouting much more productive.
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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby PK_ » Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:23 pm

Lol, yea the images are getting crazy. Last year I spotted a buck standing in a bed on aerial photo.
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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby brkissl82 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:25 pm

Wow unreal i dont know that i see trails that clearly!!! What are u using that they are thay clear
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Unread postby Kokes » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:07 pm

PK_ wrote:Lol, yea the images are getting crazy. Last year I spotted a buck standing in a bed on aerial photo.


Pk are you sure it wasn't Dan? :lol:
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Unread postby Bigb » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:02 pm

brkissl82 wrote:Wow unreal i dont know that i see trails that clearly!!! What are u using that they are thay clear

Google maps, try and find an aerial that was taken in the winter months and you can really pick them out. I sometimes look at public land around Chicago to pick out these spots even though I probably won't hunt them for a while.
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Re: Are these trails in a marsh? w/ pics from Google Earth

Unread postby comeback_kid » Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:40 am

Clink wrote:Throw a couple hours of scouting at it! :L:



Yes, I definitely plan on scouting it, but since it's a few hours away, and a large area I wanted to cyberscout first to focus my on the ground scouting later this summer.


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