chazspot

I personally think you should just take out a big, fat loan and buy some property like say,fifty acres with tons of cover, a 2:1 buck to doe ratio, and the rules are only bucks that are older than four years can be shot!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, don't forget the cabin that needs to be built on it with a continuos flow of cold sauce androlls of skoal and copenhagen black (cake!) to have atour disposal. Also, you might as well add the walk in freezer we can put somewhere close to the cabin so we hang our deer and let them age so they are nice and tender and just begging for Wye River Blackand butter.

Thank you

USFWC

Do not plant bamboo...anyone!

USFWC

There's no reason why the cover cannot...or should not...provide a food source though. Providing cover alone is short-sided...plus it has the potential to be extremely invasive.

USFWC

What can you tell us about the site? Is it upland, bottomland, clayey, sandy, etc.? ...and what kinds of vegetation are there growing in surrounding areas?

mossberghunter93

well i hate it but honey suckle is real good cover but it takes over!!!!!!!!!!!!

huntingson

A mixture of pines, young hardwood trees (would have to be cut every so often to keep them growing up), brush, and warm season grasses would be about perfect. You want to keep the pines properly spaced so that the bottom branches do not fall off and you can occassionaly cut them or 1/2 cut them so they fall over but don't die. It is work even once it is planted to maintain it.

mossbergman11

i heard that honeysuckle was very sparse here about 15 years ago now its all over there is a honeysuckle bush that is 7 feet in diameter on our property. i was clearing a field with it in it and it is h*** getting rid of that junk. it gets all tangled up in other good trees and in other honeysuckle and it kills other trees. i hate honeysucle

titleist_03

I'm entering my second year of creating a sanctuary on the family farm. After it is complete, it will be approximately 3 acres. Not huge, but the neighbor cattle farmer is cramping my style. He has a large portion of the abandoned pasture I've been working in. Fortunately I have some room to work.

The 3 acres is in a large cirlce and divided in half be a branch of a creek. I'm planting 2.5 acres of switchgrass and outlining it with low growing shrubs such as buttonbush and red-osier dogwoods. I have 1 acre of the sanctuary done. I'm doing everything by hand, and planting the switchgrass with the use of a tiller. It's very time consuming, but will be rewarding some day.

When choosing your are, make sure you located it near the center of the property. A sanctuary is a place deer will hopefully feel safe and spend a considerable amount of time. There is no sense locating this near a property line and letting the neighbor benefit from it. I always think of a sanctuary as being thick and narly. To create this I would plant some NWSG and low growing shrubs along with some conifers.