Spring Habitat Project
Creating a Habitat Plan on a Fifty-Acre Property
Habitat Improvement
Wildlife habitat imporvement methods and studies
Creating Great Habitat
In order to create a deer bedding habitat we follow a standard procedure of choose an area, spray, thin fence, plant and maintain. This unit is about 27 acres with a ridgetop on the South side, a steep bank and creek to the East and thick pine regeneration on the North and West sides. The …
The Main Causes of Food Plot Failure
Food Plots – What Not to Do By Steve Chilcote, Forester, Wildlife Biologist Stephen A. Chlcote Land & Timber Consulting 814-360-4510 schilcote1223@gmail.com This year I have been called out to go look at food plots that were established and then let go, or half way established and the client is in a big …
The Perils and Pitfalls of Using Government Programs
Last winter, I spent a day at a meeting with the Pennsylvania DCNR and the USDA to discuss landowner give – aways. The programs funded with the Farm Bill include CREP, FLEP, WHIP, CRP and Wetland Reserve Program. That’s quite a mouthful of acronyms but, basically they all amount to government programs designed to motivate …
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Timber Managment for Deer Habitat
I was just talking to one of my clients about ordering seeds and getting some soil testing done to get ready for planting. We will be replanting some food plots that have been overtaken with grass and bullthistle. I could not help thinking that, even though we have planted some nice plots, and there are …
Get Ready Now for Spring Planting
Although we are still seeing snow, frost and rain, winter will soon be over. It’s 87 and sunny in Oklahoma today and we are only a couple of weeks behind their weather. Now is the time to get out your equipment and get it ready so you don’t have to waste precious weekend time getting …
Early Spring Seeding
March is the month for frost seeding. This is the easiest work you will ever do on your food plots and should be done every spring on perennial plots. The best time is when the weather is freezing at night and above freezing in the day. Frost action, late snow and heavy rain will drive …
Gas Well Drilling Sites
I was visiting a drilling site the other day and couldn’t help but see the potential in the rehab of the site. Amazing new technology has allowed several wells (usually six) to be drilled from one site, traveling out for up to 8,000 feet through the shale layer. The environmental impact of drilling has decreased …
