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The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
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The best tips for how to create and maintain food plots, mineral sites, game camera surveys, habitat enhancements, water sources, predator control, quality deer management and more.
Manage Your Deer Dirt Like an Expert
None of us can be experts at every aspect of land management. Here’s what Steve Bartylla does to build a team of experts that can help.
Black Coyotes: What Causes Them and How Rare Are They?
Find out what percentage of coyotes have dark coats, how they came to be, and how they compare to the more common gray coyote.
Smith: Baiting Bans and APRs Won’t Slow CWD or TB
Little has been done to stop chronic wasting disease, bovine tuberculosis and other diseases. Here, the author shares his knowledge on what will help as it pertains to Michigan and other big whitetail hunting states.
Michigan DNR Examining Deer Management Challenges
The Deer Management Initiative is aimed at evaluating and responding to present-day deer management challenges.
Deer Love Chestnuts
Learn about the worst ecological disaster in American history, and how a new blight-resistant chestnut filled the nutritional gap.
These Trees Are Magnets for Deer
Unlike oaks, these trees bloom later, and those crops contain larger, nutritionally superior nuts with four times the carbohydrates of a white oak acorn, 2.5 times the protein, only a fraction of the fat, and no bitter tannins.
6 Native Foods Deer Can’t Resist
Want to truly hone in on deer travel patterns? Find, then study these six native food sources where you hunt.
Filling the Nutritional Gap for White-tailed Deer
With the decimation of the American Chestnut came a gap in several supply and food chains, but a new blight-resistant chestnut was created.
How to Get a Weed-Free Fall Food Plot
The author’s outside-the-box methods will help you better prepare for your fall food plot planting this season or next.