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Still working on improving my land in Northern MN for whitetail. It's a battle.
Background: 40 acres of fairly wet, largely coniferous cover. Dominant large trees are Jack Pine, Black Spruce, Balsam Fir and Quaking Aspen. A large grassy swale of aprox. 7 acres runs diagonally across the parcel dominated by sparse aspen, birch, chokecherry and many browse species such as the dogwoods and sapling red maple. Swale is wet. Another aprox. 5 acres is mature white and red pine with some openings due to a recent windstorm. The deer on the parcel tend to favor the swale and pine stand.
I have great winter cover, and the deer really tend to hold up in my 40 once season opens, but they just hunker down and don't seem to move around much. Also mostly does and very young immature bucks hang out there. Most of the cover is relatively young timber and very thick. I've been working on getting some shooting lanes and small openings established, but time is limited. Food plots are not in my immediate future, and most timber still to young to be commercially viable for logging, need to get the forestry under control first.
Wondering what others may be doing to improve their deer hunting through forestry practices.
Background: 40 acres of fairly wet, largely coniferous cover. Dominant large trees are Jack Pine, Black Spruce, Balsam Fir and Quaking Aspen. A large grassy swale of aprox. 7 acres runs diagonally across the parcel dominated by sparse aspen, birch, chokecherry and many browse species such as the dogwoods and sapling red maple. Swale is wet. Another aprox. 5 acres is mature white and red pine with some openings due to a recent windstorm. The deer on the parcel tend to favor the swale and pine stand.
I have great winter cover, and the deer really tend to hold up in my 40 once season opens, but they just hunker down and don't seem to move around much. Also mostly does and very young immature bucks hang out there. Most of the cover is relatively young timber and very thick. I've been working on getting some shooting lanes and small openings established, but time is limited. Food plots are not in my immediate future, and most timber still to young to be commercially viable for logging, need to get the forestry under control first.
Wondering what others may be doing to improve their deer hunting through forestry practices.