I know the struggle. Similar on obe of my spots
Seems like good fawning/bedding cover to be getting rid of. Is food what is missing on these tracts of land or is the cover critical? Do you have the the acreage to only cut/disk/treat half each year?
If you need the cover may want to look at a more selective herbicide than glyphosate. Imazapyr will control the trees, especially the sweetgums, while promoting blackberry and legumes.
^At that point I'll look like a rabbit rancher.lol. They're everywhere in that stuff.
Will it be easier to cut at that point? Or will it just die and compost itself? While cutting this side(and the other) I noticed layers of dead chutes, just laying over one another. Do you think that was this year's competition or the dead chutes from last year, and the years before? The land has been vacant for years.
Probably a stupid question, but I'm new to this.
Thats right, huge amount of browse here if done correctly, green brier, honeysuckle, Forbes etc etc etc be caref .uk l though sweetgums are a menace and the main reason i mowSome good info here. Making it a native plot has some great benefits and a heck of a lot easier than keeping up with a food plot. It doesn't look at pretty but if done right will be every bit as effective. Typical early succession plots are maintained on a 3 year cycle with the land broken up into thirds. Every 3 years an area gets disked, You can increase your edge effect by tapering the boarders of the woods. for instance a strip next to the woods will be on a 4-5 year cycle, the next strip will be 3-4, then 2-3.
I won't be clearing near a 5th of the cover para. I've got free range on this side. My understanding wife has said that this side is for nothing but hunting, with my choice of spots on the other side. What I cleared was a few 5ft lanes running to what will be around a 3/4 acre field of clover, and winter wheat. The plot will be surrounded by a few acres of the same as what you see and edge along a few acres of woods. In the woods there is a creek. On the other side of the woods, there is another field, that I haven't seen because everything is this tall on this side, and in there I'll plant something. I don't know what yet, but I'll plant something.