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Cedar bedding along access routes

dreambig@84

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I have a row of cedars along access route that's flanked with 2 year old miscanthus grass and every time I walk to blind I feel I'm spooking deer walking to stand bc stand sightings are going down quickly. The stand or blind over looks food plot on east side of property.
Yesterday I was doing some habitat work and walked through cedars to try and locate sheds and found a dead buck that must of only been like 2 weeks dead. This confirmed that the deer bed under the cedars and watch me access stand.
Do you think it would be a good idea to drop these cedars and create wall along woods edge that would be like 200 yds long to keep deer from seeing me access stand or would that stop the deer from using area bc of the blockage?
I still want deer to use bedding near food.
Thoughts on best practice here?
 
Sounds like you need to come up with a different way to access, or abandon the plot/stand all together.

Not sure on your farm size/layout, but eradicating their choice bedding seems counterproductive.

Typically much easier to move the food than move the bedding.
 
That’s a tough call ? Depends on so many factors. I personally don’t like to take out cover like cedars that are getting heavy use ? Just my thought.
 
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