I am new to scouting by myself and i was never really taught just picked some things up on my own and never lookedat topographical maps andI would like some possible in put from some of you that know how to read them. I am going to be scouting this location this weekend and would like to kind of speed up the process a little by knowing where to scout if you guys could point out some good areas of possible treestand locations that would be great. Here is a link to the map.

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.14105&lon=-88.53873&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&la yer=DRG

if you guys could just drag the red dot to where you think would be a good location i would appreciate it.

Thanks Alot.

Young Bowhunter

Hard to tell with a TOPO, seeing how i am not familiar with the area. I like to use "google earth" You can download it for free and it will give you good quality arial imagary. You can realy tell where the oaks, pines, low areas, steams etc.when looking at satalite imagary.

Ground looks flat and marshy. What your looking for are terrain features that cause moving deer to follow. You have little of those. The marsh's would be one. The deer could go around them. The section right in the center looks like a narrow place deer would travel through.

We could pick a dozen places from the topo and miss the mark. It depends where the deer are feeding, bedding and how much pressure they get and from what direction. There has to be some trails(assuming there are deer here) leading from high ground to high ground etc. If they're pressured they could very easily just go to a hump in the middle of the swamp. We can pick spots but you need to walk the ground.