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25 Projects To Improve Your Hunting Land: They All Add Up!
Improving the land and habitat for deer and other wildlife takes place one step at a time, by accomplishing one specific goal at a time. In this article, we’ll look at 25 projects almost any gamekeeper who has access to private land can do whether he owns just a few acres or manages hundreds of acres. In both cases, the needs of deer and other wild animals are the same—food, water, cover and space to
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Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Nativ Nurseries, BioLogic
Jason and Kim Patterson: Tennessee GameKeepers
Jason Patterson from Jackson, Tennessee, his wife Kim and their two sons Oakley and Devin are a family of GameKeepers. They're all involved in the outdoors, their family, hunting and fishing, as well as working with conservation organizations and representing Mossy Oak wherever they go. “I've been involved with the Mossy Oak Pro Staff for many years,” Jason Patterson said. “I was Mossy Oak’s Waterfowl ProStaff Manager for the Mississippi Flyway. But when the opportunity
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Deer, Turkey, Waterfowl, Fishing, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic
Rewards of Managing Land for Wildlife as a GameKeeper
I took a nice buck with my bow last season that would score about 135 inches. The buck came in to within 15 yards of my stand. That’s the first deer we’ve harvested on property. That was a very neat feeling. I feel confident that our hunting only will get better as we continue to improve the land and the food for wildlife on it. I think the tree plantings will be a long-term source
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Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Bow
Trees and Water for More Wildlife with GameKeeper Branden Throgmorton
Branden Throgmorton of Franklin, Indiana, about 20 miles from Indianapolis, is a newcomer to the Mossy Oak GameKeeper ProStaff, joining the team about a year ago. I just bought 10 blight-resistant Dunstan chestnut trees that are a cross between the American chestnut and the Chinese chestnut trees. Certain varieties of oak trees produce nuts every three years or every other year. But these chestnut trees produce nuts every year and are fast growing. We had
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Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Nativ Nurseries
Manage Invasive Plants for a Variety of Wildlife
Our section of Indiana has quite a bit of bush honeysuckle and wintercreeper – both invasive species. We believe that if we can get rid of much of those invasive species we can increase the variety of wildlife we have on our land. Honeysuckle isn’t a bad plant, until it becomes so thick that animals can’t move through it. It does have some value for wildlife; however, it’s a very aggressive growing plant that can
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Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
One GameKeeper's First Steps for Managing A New Property
The first thing I did when I bought this land was establish our property lines. Before we acquired this land, everyone picked mushrooms, ran their dogs, hunted squirrels and deer, ran their four wheelers and rode their horses across that property. I visited all the neighbors and told them we had bought the land and weren’t having any hunting there – at least for the first year – to learn what wildlife we had on
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Small Game, Deer, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Nativ Nurseries