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What a project! As close to a blank slate as anyone can get today. Planting any shrubs/trees on the farm?

All those mentioned above including buttonbush. What I do for some of the better growing shrubs of each species is an exclusion cage so they can produce seeds for birds to carry out to other areas of the farm.

The IA and MO state nurseries are both great for native shrubs/trees. Best part about the IA nursery is they will fall ship seedlings to plant before winter.

Kinda hard to tell, but all those trees holding leaves are shingle oaks in the background.... Could spend days out there trying to remove all of them that size/age. They're great to cut and leave as a stump sprout for browsing. Elm and shingle are two of my favorites for that.

I have piles of those growing unprotected. There's a ton I'll be cutting this winter to allow for some white oak varieties to flourish growing in between all the single oaks that regenerated. For every swamp white oak I have coming up, there's a good 10-15 shingle oaks the same age.

They're one oak that doesn't require any assistance to flourish. A delicacy for turkeys in winter. Even in high deer density areas. I'll be culling out several of them this winter doing some TSI.

That is one impressive lineup of bucks

IA has such a finite amount of the resources to being with. If they ever let supply and demand play out on its own..... There would be VERY few places for residents to find a place to hunt even worse than it is now.

They'll pile in to eat the buds off trees such as elm/hickory that are cut down. That's one reason why I wait to do TSI during the worst part of winter.

I'd go with a classical conditioning system for deer. If you put that scent on some charged fencing using aluminum foil, I bet it would condition them to avoid that scent for the most part. I got tired of them running through my e-fence, so I put peanut butter in foil at intervals on the...

Nothing wrong with getting lucky while stacking up points.

I've talked to people that hunt WY elk from out of state. Their recommendation to me has been to save points up to ~9 to get a better unit and better hunt. They've told me 4-5 points isn't enough to see a difference. I'm sitting on 7 points right now...almost there.

The deer on my place are in luck then. I've seen them eat locust pods, but wouldn't call them anything close to a primo food source in the midwest. Down south they're "sweeter" and more desired. I have a hard time finding any acorns still laying around, but locust pods..... If that's all...

20 acre lake sounds great. Dad does that work for a living...maybe I can talk him into a write-off?

The Lost Apple Project has their scions on sale now. These are varieties that were thought to have been lost to time and re-discovered out west for the most part...

https://www.missouriwhitetails.com/threads/moved-some-birds.253011/

I'd keep the same model saw with your next purchase. Also, keep an extra bar and chain available for pinching if you don't end up getting a new saw.

Welcome!! A swap hunt sounds fair for PA bears and IA whitetails.

Something else that helps me is not going to the woods on an empty stomach. A fatty meal keeps the furnace stoked for better circulation, at least for me.

Hasn’t there been something along these lines happen in areas with albinos that they’re not legal to kill? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk