Increasing Deer Forage In Timber Stands | Habitat Management
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- National Deer Association Director of Conservation Kip Adams discusses one of the most inexpensive and effective ways to increase deer forage in a timber stand. Increasing the amount of sunlight that reaches the forest floor will allow new growth of herbaceous and woody species, both of which provide excellent browse for deer and other wildlife. This can be done via felling, hinge cutting or girdling and spraying undesirable species of trees.
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Very good info on selecting trees to fell!
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful!
Great ideas love the before-and-after
Great video !!! Thanks 👨🏻👍🏼
Love the channel, I would not advise cutting oaks after leaf out though, we have Oak wilt in our area that can spread if cut after leaf out, these TSI improvements should be done early spring at the latest.
Great advice, thank you sharing!!
My forest floor is almost pure thick ferns under the canopy. Will the ferns prevent new growth or be overtaken and recede after a cut? I see the Aspen definitely overtakes them but am concerned about other plants coming up underneath the hardwood portion of my woods. Thanks for any info.
Hey Rick, ferns wont allow forest regen because they grow a thick mat of roots and shade the forest floor. They die easy when you spray them. Lots of light, no ferns, few deer will regenerate your woods. Chilcote Forestry
So do you need to remove the trees or just leave them lay?
Also my timber is very hilly, where is the best place to do this, on top of flats, on the sides facing the sun, or bottoms?
The location is not super critical, Just as long as you are opening up the canopy enough to allow sunlight in. However, south or east facing slopes that get a little more sunlight are definitely good locations. More important that location is probably choosing an area and selecting the species that meet your objectives.
Great before and after comparison. How old is that forage that you created behind you in the video? 2 or 3 years old?
Yes, I believe that the cut section was around 2-3 years old. But, even in year one there will be good herbaceous growth.
Takes about 50 years for white oak to make nut deer love white oaks
I want to do this to about a 5 acre section of timber In my 40. Only thing I wonder, and never see discussed it what do you do 5 years from now. isn't that undergrowth going to get super thick where it's inaccessible?
You need to have plans for implementing prescribed fire. It is much easier to maintain your TSI efforts with fire as opposed to going in mechanically every 2-3 years. Fire will continue to setback that "super thick" area you're talking about.
IM in PA, where are you in the state?
We were in North Central PA, around Knoxville.
Ass long as sunlight can get to the ground it will grow but once the canopy blocks its over
Correct
You can monitor which Oaks produce acorns, but how do you monitor which Oaks are the pollinators? If you remove the pollinators, the producers won't produce.
Oaks pollinate through wind. They are also both male and female so they all can pollinate.
Yes they're all pollinators. But they don't pollinate themselves. If you remove trees based on not producing acorns, you may end up removing your main pollinators. Thus causing your best producing trees to not produce as great of acorn mass. I agree you need food at browse level by opening up the canopy, but a section of the timber thats producing a good acorn mass will take many years to replace if done incorrectly.
One trick I learned is to put out a feeder and some corn.
Lol same
Doing what we do best, manipulating the environment.