How To Create Great Wildlife Habitat
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2023
- You can't create a truly great whitetail parcel without making a great parcel for wildlife at the same time! Here is how we have built a great parcel for both wildlife and whitetails, all at the same time....
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Jeff, I think this is my favorite video you’ve made so far. As much as we like sitting in trees watching deer, it’s equally as fun to watch all the other critters as well. Hope you’ve got the snow blower ready for the next couple days!
Thanks a lot and oh man, it's coming!! I'm hoping they are wrong 😬
I love the whiteboard, but REALLY love the in the field videos.
We do too! Even in the rain, ha
I've noticed from watching WHS for years now and am impressed that it's deer,deer,and wildlife in general.great vidio Jeff.
Thanks a lot Norm...always love to have you on the channel!
It's like the "Field of Dreams" for wildlife. "If Jeff builds it, they will come" :)
Ha, if nothing else we work really hard 😁
Awesome another great video on diversity habitat and how it works for wildlife not just one species
Thanks a lot Ricky! You can't have one without the other...
What a great video. After applying your tactics properly last season, we saw an explosion of deer but also small game and birds on our small parcel.
Man that is awesome JJ! So dang cool to hear...really happy for you guys!
Lenny wants to tend the rabbits hahaha
Haha 😊
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Thank you Jeff for the time and effort you put into your videos and the wealth of information you provide.
You are very welcome I hope that it all helps!
I just love your passion for wildlife! I can see it in your eyes and hear it in your voice! Thanks for helping me understand the BIG picture on diversity Jeff!!
Thanks a lot that means a lot to me...and you are very welcome! I really do love this stuff 😊
We are hoping to make it to Camp Kicking Bear again this year to see more of your improvements and help a great cause! The kids really had fun too!
Thanks. Used to make more rabbit 🐇 huts. I restarted this winter again thanks to this video. Really works well on the transition edges. 👌
They are such a perfect fit!!
Great video, thanks a lot, you make all this seem so easy but I know it’s hard work. Keep um coming
Thank you and so true ..so much work! I feel behind already this year with the launch of the seed company 😊
I appreciate the great information you have put out in the world . 👍🏻
Thank you very much Steven that means a lot to me!
Brush piles/water holes, let's not forget they attract reptiles and amphibians as well.
For sure!
Jeff thank you for your videos ( a wealth of information)
Love the content!
Thanks a lot Connor!
Interesting and informative!
Thank you very much!
Another great video, we are making major changes to the property this year with habitat, our woods are just to wide open
You will appreciate the improvement for sure!
Just moved to our new place, first thing I've been working on is rabbit huts. They're so important as a whole, my granddad always said, "if you see rabbit, you'll see deer." Glad to see you really delving into this topic because it's so very important and gives you purpose to your hinge cutting, not just dropping trees Willy nilly.
There is always a purpose to dropping any tree in the woods...heck I don't have the time to waste for willy nilly 😁
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 completely agree, but it should be planned out imo, not just knocking over trees to knock down trees like kids building forts in the woods lol
As always thanks Jeff oh yea, you as well Daniel. Lol
Thanks Brian 😊
One of your best Jeff. Thanks. .... Next time turn off the bike, background idling is distracting from the SUPERB video.
Thanks a lot and I was wondering...ha 😊 will do next time! Really appreciate it...
Awesome! Wildlife habitat!
Thanks angel we love it!
Best video you’ve made. Thank you jeff
Thank you Ernie I really appreciate it!! You are very much welcome!
Been doing this for years with blk. Drainage tubing. I'll have section I place curved in thick berry patches and under downed tops. Something else I know you hate brush pile fences.They work for me. I started them many years ago because trespassing and road poaching was rampant here. We didn't have the funds to fence and I didn't want to stop movement of deer or turkey. I needed something hard to see over for road and line shooting with staggard gaps the critters would use. Some areas got pine planting. Also something guys couldn't easily or quickly drag a deer off. Believe me when I say it worked. It also increased rodents for our many hawk species, owls and eagles. Rabbits are plentiful. I also leave loose piles throughout the property near berry and some wild rose for ground nester. I get my limit in turkey each year. Bramble seem to really like them as well for they quickly line many. Wild grape ,ppl will go in, rightly so and cut them out of their trees, I do . But when they pop up around the fencing I simply pull them down to run along the top of fence to grow. Amazing the amount of food that produces with just a bit of management.
I enjoy your content.
Jeff just saw you put up the new seed blends. Will you be doing a breakdown video on them soon, bunch of new options I don't know what to get. Had great success with your blends last year!
Hi Nick, we certainly will...and a new website 😊 It will all come together over the next few weeks or so. Really appreciate you trying them out! We even changed our blends from last year, which we will do every year to always chase perfection
Jeff, I think a great video for you to do would be things that you have changed your mind on over the years. I have been following you since before your habitat consulting days on Michigan Sportsman and know there are some things you use to promote that you have changed. It's all great info, but I sometimes think to myself that you had a different opinion "back in the day".
Anyway thanks as always for the info you put out.
Hi Thomas! Not really much has changed. I know I fell a little bit for the high hinge cuts back in the day...but even then referred to the importance of side cover.
Really not much else tho...whether management of deer or habitat. Concepts are still all the same, for sure ..
@Whitetail Habitat Solutions I can think of a couple things. I just don't want to come across as argumentative because I am truly not trying to be that. We all evolve, it is how we become better at our craft. It is beneficial to say I once promoted this but I see things differently and this is why. Thanks again.
@@thomastaylor3419 I honestly can't think of any really, at all? I've added as I learn tho, that's for sure. For example anything in my books beginning in 2012 I still teach today. Lots of people confuse or distort things tho...
@Whitetail Habitat Solutions I will just try and post respectful questions in your future videos to get clarification on topics. I do not want anyone to look at this in a negative way. Keeping it all positive. Be good. Looking forward to the next one.
Great video 👍🏼
Remember raccoon control !
Amen to that!!
I love these videos! I have a major tree order placed for this year. Hopefully I can get my conifers thickened up. Going to disc my field this year. Glyphosare is out of this world expensive. Hopefully I can get a decent stand with tilling... Wish me luck, I like your method better, but don't want to spend ridiculous prices to get deer food in.
Good luck Mike!
Consider downsizing plots and using glypho...
Comercial farmers that plow and disc still use glyphosate !
You're risking a plot of weeds
Great video! We are now entering the time of the year for potential frost seeding opportunities. Do you only frost seed established plots to fill in gaps, bare spots, etc.? Or can you frost seed to establish a new plot of clover mix? Also have you frost-seed chicory? Do you mix chicory in with clover. Thanks
Hey Jeff I watch a lot of your videos love the information you give out and would like to see some more videos on small parcel design 15 acres or less in a wooded setting not Urban but not huge woods it's somewhat populated it's out of city limits and there is no act around so I know food is at a premium I've got five acres that I'm improving but it's on permission property so there's only so much I can do there and I'm also on a budget so I'm having to use different ingredients than switch grass and stuff like that to screen but I like watching how you designed different parcels and I'm super interested in small micro parcel 15 acres or less
Hi Jake there are definitely a lot more to come and I hope you like them 😊
Hey Jeff did you send me a message telling me to text a number that I had won a prize? Only reason I ask is it shows whs on the message but the number they gave me is a Florida area code
I have approximately 1 mile of ravine edge on my property that I’m lining a 15’ edge of switch grass. This land was being farmed last year. I have approximately 20’ of interior edge before it begins to drop off. That 20’ consists primarily of weeds, brush and briars. Would you toss any type of food in there such as clover. I’d appreciate any advice.
I would love to see a video on just rabbit habitat!!!
Should I try and plant some cedars in our clear cuts or wait a year or so? They are fresh
Hi Drew I would definitely plant this year! More sun that way...and make sure that you try and keep the sun to them!
Jeff what do you think about prescribed burning? Is there an alternative to burning? My property is in the NW Wisconsin big woods area and we are not able to do this. Do you burn your switchgrass?
Can you make videos explaining and going through client parcel designs you do?
Hi Jr...I've made maybe a dozen or so? Mostly in my wildlife and whitetail habitat playlist. Just did that 2 days ago also...
Yes, sorry to clarify can you keep making them consistently? I enjoy watching your practices in action.
Is there any hope for a property adjacent to pressured state land? Will it cap potential?
Hi Kurt...more often the public land increases potential, but of course that is site specific...
Will you have anyone doing upstate ny more frequently? Great stuff as always
Kevan Smith is the closest to that area for sure...I do know that he will be up there occasionally.
@Whitetail Habitat Solutions lol i ment is there a date/ time frame he heads up to ny to do a few clients . Or is it more so when demand builds up? Ty
@@db2955 I'm really not sure? That's on Kevan and his schedule...I have enough of a hard time keeping track of my own, lol. Each of the guys create their own schedules. Jessi funnels emails to them when they come thru the site, and she also helps them book clients...but really it's all up to them. They fly to clients a lot too. I can see Kevan making a trip up there if he had a handful of clients he could visit within 2 to 3 hours of each other, but he would likely have that # of clients 1st, before scheduling a trip.
@Whitetail Habitat Solutions got ya thanks I will go on site and see what he has going on .. keep up the best informative content on the internet lol thanks again 👍 🏹🦌🇺🇸
How do you define when to just cut trees for bedding vs hinge cuts for bedding? Unfortunately, I've got 120 contiguous acres of mature hardwoods interspersed with some areas of beaver ponds. I'm going to clear cut six small areas for plots, but I also need to created bedding.
Hi Rick...by the size and variety of tree. I don't hinge cut a lot or recommend it often. Cutting down mature hardwoods and just dropping them in small pockets can be outstanding!
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks, that clears up a lot for me.
How, if I'm trying to manage my 60 acres for whitetails , can I improve the property if my neighbors are killing any deer during the summer with deprivation tags.
How long will it take for deer to start bedding after you hinge cut an area?
Typically within a week or two d pending on the size of timber and how much. They use canopy reduction cuts of removing mature trees or cutting down mature trees ..even more
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 Thanks..Have you ever put trail cameras on hinged cut bedding areas?
Jeff I've noticed you do a lot of rabbitat sweet word play by the way. Do you have problems with an increase of predators on your property with the increase of prey? Do you practice predator control?
We notice the predators are here whether we increase small game populations or not...but I have yet to find a predator killed fawn or deer of any kind in the past 30 years in MI, MN or WI. At least they have small game to eat 😊
We do need to hit the area racoons hard tho! Nest robbers...
What would you use if you have a really boggy area?
Depends if cover or food or both is needed...also your resources and just how wet. So many factors to consider ..
What mixture do you use when spraying your plots to kill weeds.
It really depends on what I'm killing. Glyphosate is the most mild, then 2-4D and Clethodim which are broadleaf and grass specific herbicides...then Dimazine which stays in the ground for 60 to 90 days and to me is the most powerful...but a PRE emergent.
Really depends and in my planting videos for food plots and switchgrass I discuss the various chemicals I use...
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