Improving the Wildlofe habitat on the farm this past weekend

[Captain]

Had about 50 acres of the farm I wanted to burn this year. Conditions got right Sunday so I got up at 6 and plowed my fire breaks.
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Got it all lit up...
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And the wonderful results.

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[Bwana]

Looks good and I suspect that will produce some seriously lush greenery for the bambis in the coming weeks.

[BarryBobPosthole]

It'll sure enough keep the ticks and chiggers from carrying you away too!

BKB

[Chicken Dinner]

Is that Long Leaf Pine?

[Captain]

I hope so Bwana. I try to burn a section about every other year.
It really help the Wildlife
Take Care, Captain

[Captain]

No those are Loblolly
Our farm is clay land and Long leaf don't do well in Clay. They like sand land.
Take Care, Captain

[Captain]

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[Thumper]

Must be nice to have your own private world! ;)

[BarryBobPosthole]

You raising those pines to eventually sell for timber, Larke? that stand looks like it was seeded.
BKB

[Captain]

Thumper that place is a LOT of work to keep it looking good and managed for Cattle and Wildlife

Barry we have thinned these trees twice and have them down to about where I want them.
I would like for them to mature to somewhere around 40-60 basal area per acre. This would be best for quail and i would like to see quail come back in our area. Quail like open mature pine stands
I have plenty of Deer, Rabbit and Turkey areas and I would like to do something for the quail. Getting the sunlight to hit a little on the ground of these mature open pine areas will produce the grasses and seed needed to help Quail return...
Take Care, Larke

[Big Skyz]

Hey I really like this. I love it when I see landowners focus on helping the wildlife in the area. Consider yourself getting a hearty pat of the back from this Montanan.

[Big Muddy]

Cap, I've got about 90 acres of hardwoods in a separate tract, that I'd love to do a controlled burn on, too....right now, it's raining about every other day, so I guess that's out of the question for now.

Looks like you did a really good job.

[Buckrub]

It's a beautiful part of Earth.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Do you have any wild plums in your wildlife strip? Out here the quail just love those plum thickets.

BKB

[Captain]

Funny you should mention the plums Posthole. I ordered a hundred whips and planted them all over the farm. Mostly in sunny food plot areas. They are doing well but did not bear fruit this year. I think I will feed them this year and see how they do.

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[Trav]

When I started the Tulsa Chapter of Quail Unlimited one of the projects we did was go in halfsies with a local NTF chapter and transplant a bunch of Chickasaw Plum thickets to several of the WMA's in this area. That was many years ago, I should go check them out and see how they are doing.

[Niner]

Is this that area you've been talking about burning that was SOooooooo thick with sweet gum saplings?