Watch out what advise you get and take....listen and ask a lot of questions and be ready to use some sweat!

Selective thinning is a good process and will help. But, if you see on TV someone using arsenal herbicide, realize that 1) its a restricted use pesticide, 2) It is designed to kill trees in pine plantations primarily...it kills hardwoods and deciduous trees. You should NEVER use it in a northern hardwood situatioin. Recognioze that many of the TV shows have a decidedly southern bias.

You can thin in your situation with a chainsaw and treat the stumps with Tordon RTU (non restricted use), or you can do a basal bark treatment where you spray Remedy and Diesel...1 part Remedy/3 parts diesel on the bottom 15-20 inches of the tree any time of the year and that will kill that tree.


Develop areas of comfort....food/water/bedding areas and your deer will begin to see your place as home.