Originally Posted by
Champlain Islander
Oh it can help you anytime of the year. Aspen groves are normally grass covered which is prime elk food during the fall. Find a good stand of aspen and look around you will find tracks and droppings. Find fresh and you are into elk. They often bed on a ridge near quakies especially if there is water nearby. Aspens offer a transition from the impenetrable dark timber where they spend most of the daylight time and the grass meadows where they feed. My hunting buddy Rob has a cabin for sale and the inside is aspen tongue and groove. What beautiful wood.
Great info, thanks ! I knew they liked aspen but now I know why.
I will be hunting an area with S. facing slopes with scrub oak and trails leading to dark timber on the North slope with aspen groves in the dark timber and I believe a spring and creek in 2 of those aspen groves, one for sure. My plan would be to hunt high on their trails in the am and hunt low late afternoon, maybe it would be good to stake out an aspen grove w/ water early and late depending on what sign I find. 5 pointer on one of my cams.
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