Thanks a lot Storm Dog......Yer right on, "baiting" is NOT legal in NY state, although I'm not sure this is "baiting" since no one will be doing any hunting on this "plot"....... I'd put out shelled corn but the quantity needed would be very expensive.

Yo haystack, the area I'm talking about is residential, not wooded, so chainsawing small trees for browse will not work so well.

My neighbor and I were brainstorming ideas over an "adult beverage" and came up with a possible remedy. That is to roto-til about a dozen strips about 200 yards long and seed it with a mixture of sunflower/corn/sorghum/soybeans. Another brain-fart was to contact the nurseries/landscapers in the local area and re-plant any of their "throw-away" yews or cedars (or what ever else they may have) that had been damaged or overgrown at some of their customers sites.

Any comments and/or suggestions? Thanks a lot, Razu