Synopses & Reviews
Wildlife & Woodlot Management: A Comprehensive Handbook for Food Plot & Habitat Development Written by Monte Burch, a leading expert with over 30 years of experience planting food plots and managing woodlots on his own farm, this book will help you to develop, manage, and maintain your property to attract and hold wildlife–especially mature bucks.
Chapters Cover:
• Choosing the right piece of land and assessing its possibilities
• Planning food plots, soil testing, preparing the land
• How to select the right seed for your property
• Food plot tools (including planting plots with ATV’s)
• Timber stand improvement, maintenance, and management practices
• Timber forest management tools
• Improving soft mast crops and acorn management
• Improving vines, shrubs, and other natural vegetation
• Monitoring food and woodlot areas
• Managing forage, non-native grasslands, and prairie grasses
• Implementing controlled burns
• Establishing watering sites and improving springs and spring seeps
• Controlling predators
• Effectively deterring poachers and trespassers
• Plus...specific tips on how to attract mature bucks, wild turkeys, waterfowl, upland birds, and small game
Synopsis
Wildlife & Woodlot Management is a comprehensive guide for hunters and landowners who want to develop, manage, and maintain their land for maximum enjoyment. Readers learn how to choose the type of land that will match the game they want to attract, whether it is waterfowl, upland, small game, or big game. Addressing one of the hottest topics today, author Monte Burch delves into planning food plots, preparing the soil, and what tools and equipment will work best. Monte offers advice on how to manage woodlots, reintroduce a forest, fell and girdle trees, establish grasslands, and manage water. Based on his own land management practices, Burch teaches a variety of techniques, with easy-to-follow instructions and solid advice.
Synopsis
Comprehensive and reliable guide for hunters and landowners who want to learn how to develop, manage, and maintain their land for maximum enjoyment. Landowners often wonder how to attract wildlife and keep it on their land. In this all-inclusive guide, they will learn how to choose the type of land that will match the game they want to attract, whether it is waterfowl, upland, small game or big game. The author covers food plots, preparing the soil, and what tools and equipment will work best.
Synopsis
A guide for hunters and landowners who want to develop, manage, and maintain their land to attract wildlife for maximum enjoyment.
About the Author
Author Monte Burch is a full-time freelance writer, illustrator, and photographer, and has contributed to numerous outdoor, gardening, and general-purpose magazines. Author of more than 70 books, he also created the Sunday comic strip, “The Good Earth Almanac.” Monte and his wife, Joan, live on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks that is managed for wildlife. There they both write, photograph, and make time to enjoy hunting and observing wildlife.
Table of Contents
Ultimate Guide to Planting Food Plots for Deer & Other Wildlife Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Finding Your Paradise 1
Chapter 2: Make the Land Pay Its Own Way 11
Chapter 3: Analyzing Your Soil & Water 21
Chapter 4: Lime & Fertilizer Applications 29
Chapter 5: Equipment Needed to Plant Food Plots 39
Chapter 6: Tree Plantings Come First 49
Chapter 7: Clovers & Clover Blends for Deer 59
Chapter 8: Alfalfa & Other Perennial Grasses 71
Chapter 9: Designer Food Plots for Deer 83
Chapter 10: Specialty Deer Forages 95
Chapter 11: Supplemental Deer Feeding 107
Chapter 12: Mineral Magic for Bigger Antlers 117
Chapter 13: How to Have More Turkeys 125
Chapter 14: Managing for Upland Game Birds 131
Chapter 15: Managing for Small Game 141
Chapter 16: Managing Ducks for Geese 147
Chapter 17: Predator Control 153
Chapter 18: Quality Deer Management 159
Glossary of Terms 165