Recent content by LoessHillsArcher

Awesome setup!! I tell my wife I could have a lot worse problems. lol

Heard a podcast state that they were under the impression cropping history years wouldn't be updated in this farm bill

Harvested some logs off our farm years ago, made real nice wood! I knew of a big black cherry creek bottom near by that I always drooled over. Dreamt of someday being able to mill them... dozers took it all out in a couple hours two years ago.

I'm a Crispi fan - spend the money on boots, worth it for sure!

YES, so cool! Thanks for sharing!

There's no arguing deer will browse and set back new trees. In my opinion, the issues isn't the deer, the issue is the lack of new growth. Even if there were zero deer, our timbers aren't going to regenerate with new oaks on their own. The understory isn't being thinned and fire is gone from...

Thought of something on rebar, you guys ever get a tree out of a tube a foot or two and have the rebar not be enough support and the tree not have any backbone to support itself?

I was thinking the same thing, that's a great idea! Spinning tubes have cost me more trees than i care to admit

Yup, Tordon can move through the roots to non desirable trees. Triclopyr comes in a few varieties (water based vs oil based) in differing strengths also. Water based is better for hack and squirt and oil based better basal bark I'm told. I've tried oil based (the '4' version) on hack and...

Emails sent - this crap has to stop - it's never ending. Glad we have a good educated outdoorsman/women population that speaks up for all IA outdoors man. This is wild to me, it's a loose loose for everyone. Even the few that benefit in the very short term will have crappy quality of hunting...

I made this with a wood frame, attached an old fence post, then bagged concrete for weight on the bottom. Fake dirt on top of the concrete, made from peat moss and elmers glue.

Something like this definitely would help - needs to be pretty impactful. Anything that's going to be truly impactful is going to mean limiting hunters, which isn't going to be popular and is going to be painful but for the resource to rebound that would be a great thing!

Yup, loss of habitat is really really bad but the EHD die offs took it to another level of bad. For us 2023 was a massive die off, 50%+ of the heard I'd estimate on our farm. Then hunter harvest/pressure has increased significantly each year due to habitat loss. Hunters are getting forced...

No help here but man, sorry to hear that. That sucks!!

Agreed - needs to be buck only for more seasons to have greater impact