While it's unfortunate that the company may affect your hunting this year, I think in the long run it will be beneficial.

I always thought a chainsaw is a deer hunters friend especially in the north country. Mature trees don't provide any food or shelter unless they are nut trees and they don't normally cut those up here. The mountain deer don't get much agricultural feed so they rely on softwood browse. Some timber harvest is always good as long as they don't take the whole mountain.

I can't move until the season ends and people leave the club. I'm stuck with my spots. And I'm not sure I will even renew for next year.

Also with them clear cutting the area it would be a good time to think about where to put some new food plots. After all the trees are gone and the ground in some areas will be easier to access. Our club land was clear cut last year but we saw no decrease in club harvest last year. The deer will return it just means you have to rethink where to put your stands after doing some additional scouting. Time to go to work.

He may not even be able to do what you're talking about since they just lease the land from that timber company. Some places allow things like that and others only allow you to put up stands and hunt.

Clear cutting = sprouts/browes :) Hunt!!

My self I would not give up on the place. Seen to much good happen after timber harvest from select cutting to clear cutting.
One thing you will never know if you give up.


:D Al

The same thing happened to me near P/Cola several years ago. I hunted the Perdidio Wildlife Management Area and always took a couple bucks a year off it. Then they went in and clear cut about 85% to thin out non-native trees. They planted long leaf pines which are the native trees. Last time was there it looked like it should be pretty good now. But they first and second year it looked like a war zone.

It's not that I'm giving up. The spother I have picked are it. If people get out, which I'm sure there so be many. I can then determine a new strategy. But this year my strategy has unfortunately changed since I had everything set up. My one spot will still pan out that's near the swamp. But my other spot may be dead. Time will only tell.

Northern Michigan woods in the fall, A chain saw is an excellent deer call.


:D Al