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Great video. I might try this method next year, but I don't know if I can do the burning part. Fortunately the areas I want to do were formerly foodplots so there's not the thick grasses you were dealing with.

Hmmmm. I thought they wouldn't bed in switch due to lack of food. I thought that's why it made good screening. If they're bedding in the screen, the point is defeated as now they can watch you walk to your stand from their beds. Im guessing that it takes meticulous upkeep to keep woody browse completely gone from switch.

Great video, need to do this on our property. How does a burn like this impact young trees and shrubs? Would they survive?

Interesting. I like it. Probably should emphasize this is not recommended for other variants of switch. RC Big Rock is a fast germination variant. Others are not.

1:05 I saw a bun bun.

What are your thoughts about removing the burn, and instead go: Gly - week off Gly - days off Cut very short and seed before the next rain?

Could I ask what the benefits of the burning was? Removing all the dead fibers opening up for seeding?

Lol I did some white pines like that. Worked like a charm. Most made it and are nearly 8 feet tall now.

hey man , thanks for the video, please look at my reply to joeschmoe, I think the turkey thing is a timing thing dealing with food and poult raising,👍

Great video, looks really nice. Question - have you put up any game cams after you burn a field to see what shows up to the burn area? I hear wild turkeys show up after the burn to look for food in these areas. Not sure what all else shows up.

Glad it worked for you too Sam, really an easy method!

Great tips on the cuttings. That works really well with red ozier and gray dogwood too. Also elderberry. Right now is a great time to do cuttings.

Literally had a tornado go through one of our properties to the point of visually looking like absolutely nothing could go through it. Turns out it beds probably the most deer and the preferred bedding of the mature bucks. Those small "dead ends" you are showing will have zero negative effect on the bedding. Absolutely regurgitated nonsense for the most part.

I think you're my brother. Very informative, really good video.

What’s the exact kind of hybrid willow? Do you recommend ordering cuttings online and just planting them, or letting them root in water first?

Would love to do this but our bush honey suckle is already out of control since our aspen was clear cut 25 years ago. Wish there was more info out there on bush honey suckle removal on a mass scale. Walking around killing it manually is not feasible in the slightest

I bought 3. Fully charged Tactacam batteries with fully charged batteries 2 of my cameras died overnight but read 100%? Not impressed

I got some hybrid poplars I planted 5-7 yrs ago. Some are almost as big a a steering wheel in diameter & 20-30ft. I’m going to cut a few down maybe this winter. You should try to go in there in spots and spray clethodim and kill the grass in 20-30 yard circles for better woody/broadleaf regen. Leave some grass for diversity.

That area looks awesome!

Maybe put the tape on the wall piece instead of on the window magnet.

I think this winter I foresee a "Sam does whiteboard" lesson. Awesome stuff brother

Amazing how quickly they realize the pressure is off

Thanks for passing this on!

I've used 53% glysophate solution and have had excellent luck with killing off buckthorns without stumps regenerating. For whatever reason, I did have a few that came back, but I would estimate about 95% at least buckthorns never came back. An extra lot we bought over a year ago had a lot of buckthorn trees in it. You could say it was very neglected! A bunch were in upwards of 25 feet tall, most with berries, and were a real pain to cut down and get out of there, and a lot of seedlings in varying truck sizes and heights. It took a lot of work, but now that lot is cleaned out of buckthorns and the native trees are what's left. The worst part of where the buckthorns were the most concentrated managed to kill pretty much everything leaving us with that part having only a few weeds, a few trees, and nothing else. Now though, other native trees, grass, and other plant life are growing there. At this point, there are very very few seedlings left which is a far cry from what we started with and have begun planting other trees to repopulate that wooded lot with native trees. The control plan is to get a stump grinder to get the stumps out, and any seedlings that pop up to keep mowing them off, or just pull them out if the ground is wet enough. I have read that if seedlings are continously mowed off, over time they will die due to them having to use the food reserves in the root mass and eventually it runs out with them trying to resprout. Time will tell how successful we are.

You are spot on with the aspen regeneration. I did 19 acres in January and this summer there is so much regrowth I can’t imagine it. Now I have to figure out what to do with it and how to hunt it. The problem with logging small tracts of woods is finding a logger that will come in. It took me 3 years to get that done. Great video.

I’m using a different approach. When I tried forestry mowing, I ended up with shattered stumps that were difficult to treat, and extensive follow-up foliar treatments that were difficult for me to time correctly. Also, the mechanical disturbance of the soil caused increased sprouting of otherwise dormant seeds the following spring, so I never seemed to get ahead. So, I switched to a low-disturbance approach where I just spray the seed bearing trees in the fall, leaving the younger ones to outcompete each other and make it difficult for new sprouts to get started. This way, the seeds in the soil don’t germinate, the seed bearing trees get killed, and most of the smaller non-seed bearing trees are out-competed and die on their own. It’s the long game, but it’s low cost, low impact, and low disturbance, requiring only low cost basal bark treatments instead of high cost machinery. Just an idea.

Leave some drumming logs, he’s doing some good grouse work as well. Like Leopold said, habitat is created with axe, saw, and a match!

Is there a market for buckthorn? ( I have a lot of it Lol) Would like to see how to improve lowland areas. Thanks again for doing these videos.

Wish I had an aspen stand in my woods, he’s lucky with what he has! Mine are 90% hard and soft maple which is great for $, but regen will take a little longer. I did clear cut about 3-4 acres for future bedding on the west side of my property

I'm having a bunch of red oak logged off my property after the season ends. already have everything marked. looking forward to going behind the loggers and cutting more aspen to get the regen going.