Deer Don't Need All Those Beech Trees. Forest Stand Improvement Tips.

When you’re doing Forest Stand Improvement for deer, no tree is sacred just because it produces mast. You can have too many oaks, or too many hickories or too many beech. If you keep them all and hoard them just because they produce mast, you’re not going to achieve the right balance of sunlight, forage, cover and mast that makes great deer habitat.
A forest with only 2% to 3% sunlight reaching the ground is producing only about 100 pounds of quality deer forage per acre. A forest with 50% sunlight produces around 1,200 pounds per acre. To achieve 30% to 50% sunlight reaching the ground, select low-value, overabundant and invasive trees to remove. This includes mast producers. Select a few individual mast producing trees to keep, remove the rest, and you’ll increase mast production while producing forage and cover for deer in the space you’ve created between them.
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Thank you. I've seen those golden leaves on trees in the woods i hunt but I've never known what they were.

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You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

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Perfect information

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[@randywallace]

Lindsay always gives great information on improving your habitat for wildlife.

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Thank you!

[@timhatfield6367]

Good job..makes sense.
Life's a Beech sometimes.

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This is true! Thanks for watching.