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Fine Tuned

Deer Hunting Eight months of work, planning, and strategizing is about to be put to the test as deer hunting seasons begin. Land managers invest a huge amount of time and money into their properties to improve them. Now is the time for the final preparations before it’s time to put on the camouflage and […]

Validation

Deer Management Wildlife managers come in all types. Walter Gilbert is no different. He is a loyal TMA viewer and has put what he has learned through our episodes into practice on his farm in South Carolina. Gilbert is the type that didn’t need told what to do, he just needed someone to confirm his […]

Damage Control

Trapping Coyotes This week we’re with Levi Carlock and Bill Gray the ADWFF District Supervisor Biologist and they’re preforming a fawn recruitment study with Auburn University. They’re trapping one of two sections of a large piece of land to study not only the effects of intensive predator trapping, but also the effects of good habitat […]

The Offseason

Managing Food Plots As we move through the summer months, there are still tasks to complete as a land manger. The heat may have you wanting to sit inside in the air conditioning, but tasks that you do now can have a direct effect on the success you have this fall and winter. Soybeans are […]

Starting Over

Deer Management Last year’s drought was tough on deer herds across much of the country. It was no different in Central Illinois at the Fogle Farm. Numerous mature bucks that Ross and Derek had on their hit list either went missing or were found dead. They believed the outbreak of EHD to be the main […]