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All Habitat Articles
  • All Habitat Articles
  • 15-acre fixer-upper
  • access
  • acorns
  • action alert
  • advisory committee
  • aging bucks on the hoof
  • annuals
  • anti-hunting
  • antler growth
  • antler injuries
  • antler score
  • antler velvet
  • antlerless harvest
  • antlers
  • apple trees
  • apples
  • archery
  • arrowleaf
  • austrian winter pea
  • bachelor group
  • baiting
  • balansa clover
  • bedding
  • blood-trailing
  • bobcats
  • Boundary Waters
  • bowhunting
  • brain abscess
  • brassicas
  • browse
  • buck age
  • buck age structure
  • buck fight
  • buck harvest
  • buck home range
  • buck management
  • buck mortality
  • buck movements
  • buck rubs
  • buck:doe ratio
  • bucks
  • buckwheat
  • button bucks
  • BWCAW
  • camouflage
  • captive
  • carrying capacity
  • cementum annuli
  • cereal grains
  • cereal rye
  • chainsaws
  • chicory
  • chronic wasting disease
  • Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act
  • clover
  • Coffee & Deer
  • Columbian
  • conservation
  • conservation funding
  • cool season
  • cooperatives
  • corn
  • cover
  • cowpea
  • coyotes
  • crabapple
  • crimson clover
  • crossbows
  • cryptorchidism
  • Cuddeback
  • culling
  • cultipacker
  • cwd
  • CWD Research and Management Act
  • cwd roundup
  • cyberscouting
  • data collection
  • deer anatomy
  • deer behavior
  • deer biology
  • deer density
  • deer diseases
  • deer farm
  • deer food
  • deer forage
  • deer genetics
  • deer glands
  • deer harvest
  • deer health
  • deer hearing
  • deer heart
  • deer hunters
  • deer management
  • deer movement
  • deer nutrition
  • deer orchards
  • deer recovery
  • Deer Report
  • deer research
  • deer restocking
  • Deer Season 365
  • deer senses
  • deer stands
  • deer tracking dog
  • deer vision
  • Delaware
  • DMAP
  • doe harvest
  • doe hunting
  • early successional habitat
  • ebike
  • edge feathering
  • ehd
  • Endangered Species Act
  • equipment
  • escape cover
  • excursions
  • fall food plots
  • fawn predation
  • fawn recruitment
  • fawn survival
  • fawning cover
  • fawns
  • Featured
  • feeding
  • feral hogs
  • fertilizer
  • Field to Fork
  • firearms
  • fireblight
  • food plot
  • food plot equipment
  • food plot failure
  • food plot planting
  • food plot species profile
  • forage
  • forage rape
  • forester
  • forestry
  • frost-seeding
  • fruit trees
  • fsi
  • glyphosate
  • glyphosate resistance
  • GPS collar study
  • grain sorghum
  • grant
  • grasslands
  • habitat improvement
  • hard mast
  • harvest data
  • heavy arrows
  • hemorrhagic disease
  • herbicides
  • herd management
  • herd monitoring
  • hinge cuts
  • home range
  • hunter recruitment
  • hunter safety
  • hunting access
  • hunting clothes
  • hunting gear
  • hunting lease
  • hunting media
  • hunting permission
  • hunting plots
  • hunting pressure
  • hunting regulations
  • hunting safety
  • hunting strategy
  • hunting the wind
  • invasives
  • jawbone aging
  • jointvetch
  • ladino clover
  • legislation
  • legume
  • legumes
  • light arrows
  • lime
  • liming
  • locavore
  • lockdown phase
  • Louisiana
  • lyme disease
  • management plan
  • mange
  • MAPLand Act
  • marksmanship
  • mature bucks
  • mechanical broadheads
  • melanistic
  • mentoring
  • Michigan
  • minerals
  • mining
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • moon phase
  • mosquitos
  • mule deer
  • native plants
  • New Jersey
  • new york
  • non-native
  • North American Grasslands Conservation Act
  • nutrition
  • oak trees
  • oaks
  • oats
  • observation data
  • October lull
  • onX
  • orchards
  • parasites
  • pears
  • pennsylvania
  • perennials
  • persimmons
  • piebald
  • Pittman
  • pittman-robertson act
  • poaching
  • pokeweed
  • post rut
  • predation
  • predator management
  • predators
  • prescribed fire
  • public comment
  • public comments
  • public land
  • public lands
  • public meeting
  • R3
  • rattling
  • RAWA
  • recipe
  • Recovering America's Wildlife Act
  • red oaks
  • research
  • RETURN Act
  • Robertson
  • rubs
  • rubs and scrapes
  • rut
  • rut behaviors
  • rut hunting tactics
  • rut timing
  • ryegrass
  • saddle hunting
  • safety
  • safety harness
  • salvage plot
  • sanctuaries
  • scouting
  • scrapes
  • seeding rate
  • sex ratio
  • shed hunting
  • shot placement
  • shrubs
  • small acreage
  • small property
  • soft mast
  • soil preparation
  • soil test
  • soybeans
  • stand placement
  • suburban deer
  • sugar beets
  • summer food plots
  • sunn hemp
  • supplemental feeding
  • suppressors
  • swamp chestnut oak
  • tarsal
  • terrain features
  • Texas
  • ticks
  • timber cut
  • timber management
  • timber stand improvement
  • Topics: cool-season annuals
  • trail cameras
  • trail-camera survey
  • trapping
  • tree planting
  • tree shelters
  • tree tubes
  • treestand safety
  • trespassing
  • tsi
  • turnips
  • venison donation
  • venison processing
  • warm season
  • warm-season annuals
  • Washington
  • weed control
  • weird deer
  • wheat
  • whitetail biology
  • whitetail research
  • winter nutrition
  • wolves
  • women hunters
  • yearling buck dispersal
  • young forest
  • youth

3 More Herbicides Every Deer Steward Should Know

Jun 1, 2021 Brian Grossman

In a previous article— 5 Herbicides Every Deer Steward Should Know — I covered what I believe to be five of the most common herbicides used by habitat managers, with a specific focus on those…

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Food Plot Screening Cover for Better Deer Hunting

Apr 28, 2021 Ryan Basinger

If hunters are willing, the easiest part of a deer management program is to produce mature bucks. It’s quite simple. If young bucks are not harvested, most will get older and provide hunters with an…

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Strategic Food Plot Designs: Try the Wagon Wheel

Apr 14, 2021 Mike Grandey

When I first began deer hunting, I would often head to the woods with a few two-by-fours, a pocket full of nails, and a hammer to erect my treestands between closely grown trees. Then I’d…

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Which food plot crops do deer prefer, and why?

Feb 10, 2021 Jacob Dykes, Bronson Strickland, Steve Demarais, and Marcus Lashley

“What is the best thing to plant in my food plot?” Have you ever asked this question? As University Extension professionals and wildlife scientists, we get asked that question a lot. The search for the…

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NDA’s Guide to Prescribed Fire

Feb 4, 2021 NDA Staff

Prescribed fire is a great way to set back plant succession and improve habitat on a hunting property. While many land managers once avoided fire due to safety concerns, improved techniques, training and information has…

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Deer Habitat in a Squirt Bottle part 2: Tools, Teams and Techniques

Jan 27, 2021 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Removing surplus or non-native trees and shrubs to restore sunlight to the ground, fueling a rebirth of deer forage and cover, is a great way to rapidly improve deer habitat. Dr. Craig Harper of the…

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Deer Habitat in a Squirt Bottle part 1: Add Great Deer Habitat by Subtracting

Jan 20, 2021 Lindsay Thomas Jr.

If I ask you to imagine going outside today and creating some great deer habitat, what do you picture? Did you think of something you could add, like seeds or trees you can plant? Let’s…

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Break Down the Brassicas to Choose the Best for Your Food Plots

Aug 19, 2020 Ryan Basinger

Although they have long been used as a livestock forage, brassicas came on the scene as a deer forage about 20 to 30 years ago. There are numerous species that belong to genus Brassica, and…

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