Habitat and Herd Improvement

doe hunting herd success

Easy Doe Hunting Equals Herd Success

There is most likely no greater indication that your herd, hunting and habitat efforts are running smoothly, than if you experience easy doe hunting opportunities.

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Hinge Cut Bedding Guide

WOW...Hinge cut bedding techniques for deer have come an incredibly long ways in the last 20 years! Have you noticed? If you want to skip right to the basics of creating hinge cut bedding areas...fast forward to a few paragraphs below.

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Switchgrass Plantings for Deer Bedding?

Have you ever wanted to easily create switchgrass plantings for deer, but lack the resources of expensive equipment? Than I encourage you to follow along, because I am excited to discuss these easy, strategic methods for getting the job done.

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Deer Browse for Daytime Bedding

Do you have enough deer browse to house deer during the daytime hours? Deer are rhythmic pattern feeders and what that means is that deer browse and feed 5 times during a 24 hour period.

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Natural Browse Plot Creations for Deer

Have you ever created a natural browse plot? Staring across the Northern WI lowland, mixed with young aspen regen, red osier dogwood, white and yellow birch, red maple, tag alder and various conifers, the diversity of the habitat was incredible, but disappointing.

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Doe and Buck Bedding Areas: Small Parcel Habitat

Have you ever considered why there are doe bedding areas, and buck bedding areas? Figuring out where and why buck bedding areas are located in a particular spot in the woods is pretty easy to discover, once you understand why does bed here and bucks bed there.

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40 Acre MI Whitetail Habitat Plan

“I bought my property in December of 2012. It had all the features I was looking for except a river/creek either way I knew this was the one and had a lot of potential from my previous experiences with LaPratt on other properties and boot camp.

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Advanced Deer Mineral Strategies: Defining Deer Movement

What are your own deer mineral strategies? Are they even legal in your state to use? When do you place them in the woods and fields of the lands that you hunt?

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Deer Corridors: Hoop Dreams

There may be no better way to bring a deer to your bowstand, than by creating a deer corridor right to your bowstand! Have you tried to create one?

building a quality deer herd

Building A Quality Deer Herd

Do you love all things whitetail, like me? Are you passionate about not only hunting quality deer herds, but actually building quality deer herds as well?

reducing hunting pressure

Reducing Hunting Pressure: Following A Non-Hunter's Example

I would like you to think about all of the whitetail-filled lands that you personally know, where the process of reducing hunting pressure is a matter of circumstance, and not due to a strategic mindset by hunters.

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Mark Kenyon: Chasing Whitetail Dreams

Have you folks heard about Mark Kenyon? If you haven't I am surprised, and if you have I am sure you will recognize him has one of the rising stars in today's whitetail industry.