Cabin Fever

[catskillkid]

Timber stand improvement and preparing foods plots. Always preparing for future hunts.

[Rebel Darling]

This past weekend, I felled a few trees around a natural clearing to enlarge the clearing.  I also cut a number of saplings that shaded the ground, leaving enough for new shoots to grow out from around the trunks.  I selected two trees on either side of the clearing for stands, depending on wind direction.  The deer were already walking along a trail that leads them to the clearing, which also has a depression that holds water long after the rains.  This weekend, I think I'll take the leaf blower out and blow the leaves around, with the hope of clearing some spots for dormant seeds to sprout.  I'm unsure of when is best to set the seeds for a food plot, but I'd like to supplement the natural growth with some cover, perhaps clover, which is in short supply up my way.

 

Hoping for some more good weather to last through the weekend...

 

Oh, and I also have a ton of wood to chop now.  A great release from a week's long hours.