A Conversation about habitat with Jim Ward. Part 6: Food lanes, value of trees, invasive species

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This is the 6th in a series of videos comprising a discussion between Jim Brauker and Jim Ward while walking Jim Ward's 137 acre south central Indiana whitetail property. We will be releasing these videos in sequence during 2022-23. We were joined on this day by a young habitat consultant named Colin Koskinen.
This video comprises a walking tour of Jim's east property line and includes discussions of forest management, food lanes, soils, and invasive species.
Jim Brauker is the author of the book "Extreme Deer Habitat" and the web and KZfaq e sites of the same name. Jim focuses on education of hunters to improve their habitat on their hunting property. extremedeerhabitat.com.
Jim Ward is an expert trophy buck hunter and one of the leading deer habitat specialists in the country. Jim has spent many years traveling around the country and helping people develop their deer habitat plans and properties. Jim is no longer taking on clients but instead is focusing on his own property, the properties of his long term clients, and spending more time educating landowners. jimwardwhitetailacademy.com
Colin Koskinen was behind the camera for these videos and is the owner of a whitetail habitat consulting company called Legendary Habitat. He has worked in the field with both Jim Brauker and Jim Ward and they both recommend him for your habitat plans. www.legendaryhabitat.com
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@williamhamilton983 7 ай бұрын

Multiflora rose was given out in our area in upstate NY,wish I never planted it to invasive taking up room of natural vegetation

@travissmith-wz5nc Жыл бұрын

Best advice is miracle gro as a liquid fertilizer and the redmond mineral on the soil

@todlew3238 Жыл бұрын

A decade plus study of collared bucks revealed that they are in bedding an hour before sunrise for the most part. Hunt evenings anyday and mornings when bucks are cruising (roam) period of the rut and the actual rut. Same study revealed they're on their feet the most daytime during those periods

@MinnesotaJake Жыл бұрын

Jim Ward has his own data from a primo property he used to manage, 500 acres in Iowa. Every buck bed was camera up and the earliest he had bucks back in their beds was 830. That was on a meticulously maintained property with perfect habitat because he worked full-time on it and he and the owner intensely managed their hunting pressure . That’s the data he goes by because the properties he builds and manages are like that one. If you let deer do their thing, and they are not constantly pressured, they don’t gravitate towards darkness like we think they do. Cite your article or the original data and my guess is we will find it was conducted at a large hunting club or similarly pressured property.

@Jamax99Jetfan 6 ай бұрын

Biggest mistake most Hunters in my area , do wrong is Not play the wind, and Bumbing deer out of beds in AM. Tbe problem is opening day of rifle everyone wants to go to there spot, but should wait till wind and afternoon in some places.

@M.D.71755 11 ай бұрын

The endurance hunter channel has stolen some of your poison ivy video

@usernamehere6061 Жыл бұрын

Great advice until you started speaking on invasive species. Nuke invasives up front. You minimize your work down the road if you take them all out immediately. It only takes 1 growing season for vegetation to respond and replace it.

@IbanezGuitarz87 7 ай бұрын

yup.

@zr20s 6 ай бұрын

I love invasives

@todlew3238 Жыл бұрын

Beech provide nuts for alot of wildlife species and are a preferred scrape tree as branches grow lower and maintain leaves longer. 🤷‍♂️ Boys I can't follow your advice

@usernamehere6061 Жыл бұрын

Beech do not produce nuts every year & the native forbs that grow when you remove that beech canopy has higher benefit than the beech. Its all about balance. Beech trees are marcescent so when you have an understory of beech that hold into their leaves how do you expect to ever get oak regen or native browse? Managing ONLY for hard mast is a mistake so you should reconsider your opinion.

@Eastky23wildlife 7 ай бұрын

Beech will be distinct in 50 years anyways. Beech bark disease.