:D Great squirrel photos!
Try mixing cayenne pepper and water and spraying it on your camera. I use this mixture for keeping rabbits from chewing on shrubs in the winter and it might work for squirrels too.
I hinge cut both honey locust and hedge(osage orange). Osage orange leaves, fresh honey locust sprouts, and honey locust pods are all sought after food sources for whitetails.
Dbltree is right, your cedars probably will not do well in the bottomland you described, but if you can keep the deer off them and the competing grass down, norway spruce, black spruce, or balsam fir can grow in wet bottoms.
As for the bottomland grass I would try a CIR switchgrass frost...
I agree with Bukket, I think willow thickets are pretty good bedding areas too.
If you want to ad some interest for the deer, burn through it this winter when the willows are dormant in Jan or Feb. You may kill some of the willows where the reeds canary is thick but most of them will survive...
Cottonwood have very short wood fibers that tend to snap off if you try to hinge cut them. You might be able to hinge small ones but anything over 5 or 6 inches in diameter will probably break off instead of staying hinged to the stump. The colder the temps the more difficult it is to keep the...
If you do a search for fuel classification with the national interagency fire center you can probably find something on the different fuel types.
In general wildland fire fuels are broke down into four groups ...
1 hour fuels ... grass, leaves
10 hour fuels ... small twigs, sticks, small...
There are so many variables that affect fire behavoir that makes it pretty hard to answer those questions. Humidity, wind, fuels, fuel moisture all affect the results you will have with trying to kill hickory and elm.
I have one site with a stand consisting of oak, hickory and elm with an...
Here are a few examples of situations where oak regeneration and fire can work and one where it most likely would be difficult at best.
These hinged trees have very little canopy and there is plenty of light
These are hinged hickories and shingles around a black oak where again it has...
Paul the reason you find most professionals have a disdain for hinge cutting is because most foresters are focused on oak regeneration when they manage timber. They don’t care so much about creating fantastic wildlife habitat but they do care about insuring there will be oak forests in Iowa for...
Local hunter access is the problem that over time could diminish the quality of Iowa's deer herd.
If non-resident tags increase there will be more incentive to buy Iowa hunting land. Most non-residents and many residents too are reducing hunting access when they buy a property for recreational...
The whole point of hinge cutting trees is to keep those trees alive and create a living canopy of trees, brush, and vines between 2 to 15 feet off the ground .... which is fantastic for wildlife ... but does not let much light to the ground. Look at most of the photos in this post, you don't see...
I would try to avoid hinge cutting any oak after March 1 in southern Iowa. When you leave a large fresh wound like a hinge cut in a living tree you make that tree pretty susceptable to fungus, disease, or insects. Root rot kills plenty of oaks in Iowa and root rot spores disperse during the...
You brought up some excellent points dgallow. Standing hollow snags can be very dangerous, and provide plenty of excitement when you are falling them after they have caught fire, but I would hate to see all the dead hollow snags cut out of a burn unit. Many animals depend on those standing...
Sell those Governor deer tags at $5000 per tag just one or two years instead of giving them away and the problem would likely be solved ... or the Honey Creek construction debt that is. Many of the individuals receiving those tags would probably consider $5000 simple pocket change ... and they...
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