Clear Cutting by Timber Company
07-01-2016, 02:24 PM
#22
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Paradise
Posts: 23,428
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.
07-02-2016, 03:36 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Midlo, Va
Posts: 561
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.
07-02-2016, 05:58 PM
#25
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
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.
Hunt!!
Al
07-03-2016, 04:31 PM
#28
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
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.
07-04-2016, 03:42 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 516
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.