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Old 07-22-2007 | 06:14 AM
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Default RE: Government Habitiat Programs

"Native tall grasses require full sunlight. Tall grasses, like Indiangrass, Little Bluestem, Big Bluestem, and Switchgrass make great cover for deer. If the area is big enough, doe will almost always prefer to fawn in tall grasses. The fawns can lay down in them, and unless a predator literally steps on them, they can't find them. Also if you have any quail or other ground nesting birds, their nesting success rates will skyrocket in tall grasses."

One of our places is 80 acres with about half in woods that has deep ravines.The rest is in big bluestem. This stuff gets five feet tall. Thedoes do prefer to have their fawns in the tall grass and hide them there. The deer even prefer tobed in the grass in the winter. All theother land around thereis heavily pastured withcattle horses.That place is a deer and quail magnet.
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