How Much Are Pine Trees Worth? In my work as a Consulting Forester, I often get calls and in-person questions about what trees are worth. My standard answer is “it depends”. Often, people are talking about a few trees in their yard. So, how much are pine trees worth? That depends on whether you are …
How To Create a Licking Branch A licking branch in combination with a scrape is a lot like a fire hydrant in your neighborhood. Any dog being walked near it can’t help but go scent check it and deposit its own scent on top of the other dogs’. Any scrape made by a buck in …
Things You Can Do To Improve Deer Habitat in Spring Spring is in the air all over North America. The early flowers are blooming as spring works its way north. Many landowners are thinking about working on their deer and turkey habitat to improve their land for all wildlife and increase the value of their …
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More and more landowners are wondering how to choose a wildlife consultant to make habitat improvements on their property. As a Consulting Forester, I have always considered wildlife habitat in my timber management activities. Even when the landowner is not interested in having wildlife habitat work done on the property, I made sure landings were …
Do I Have To Pay Income Tax on My Timber Sale? I was meeting with a landowner about his timber sale I recently marked and sold for him. He had a timber sale 11 years ago and I asked him about how much depletion he took on that sale. He had no idea what I …
Creating Deer Habitat That Also Benefits All Wildlife As a landowner who cares about good stewardship of the land and who likes to see lots of game, songbirds and other wildlife like reptiles and amphibians while you walk your woods and to have great success in hunting season, this article is for you. As a …
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I was perusing the internet when I thought of writing this article to get some ideas of what information is already out there on the subject of liming food plots. There seems to be plenty of bad advice and over simplified explanations, so I want to break it down for you in this article and …
How to Interpret a Food Plot Soil Test I was in a meeting the other day with a phD soil scientist Dr. Spargo at Penn Stat and my agronomist friend Derec Markle of Yonder Mountain Conservation, discussing soil testing and how to interpret a food plot soil test. I shared with them some examples of …
Hunting Land in Central PA This 175 acre tract is located in Liberty Township, PA. It doesn’t get much quieter if you are looking for a secluded location to have a piece of hunting land. There is room to build a camp and power along the gravel public road. The tract has 500 yards of …
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This farm is located in Haines Township, Centre County, PA. It has 117 acres with 50 tillable acres with limestone soils. The land is secluded – at the dead end of the public road surrounded by other large private properties that are in Farm Preservation. Penns Creek, a world-class trout stream is within walking distance, …
