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wildlife and forests: Wildlife and Forest Health, Seldom a Product of Neglect! - 06/14/17 11:52 PM

Neglecting your Forest is Seldom the best option for Wildlife and Forest Health
Leaving your forest alone is seldom the best option for either wildlife habitat or a healthy forest.
An unmanaged forest will become stagnant reducing the amount of food for wildlife and crowding out the younger trees which are important for the next generation of the forest.
Most wildlife requires a diverse forest with varied ages and types of trees for both food and shelter.
And a healthy sustainable forest requires various ages of trees to enable future generations.

If you are interested in … (7 comments)

wildlife and forests: Most Wildlife Prefer; Plentiful Food & Cover of a Well Managed Forest - 06/09/17 10:32 PM

The Results are in... Most Wildlife Prefer the Plentiful Food and Cover of a Well Managed Forest.
Leaving your forest alone is seldom the best option for either wildlife habitat or a healthy forest.
An unmanaged forest will become stagnant reducing the amount of food for wildlife and crowding out the younger trees which are important for the next generation of the forest.
Most wildlife requires a diverse forest with varied ages and types of trees for both food and shelter.
And a healthy sustainable forest requires various ages of trees to enable future generations.

If you … (10 comments)

wildlife and forests: Sand County Contemplation; Building a Leopold Bench - 04/11/17 10:21 PM

Sand County Contemplation; Building a Leopold Bench
To go with the Leopold theme of a few of my recent posts, I am going to include one more post Relating to Aldo Leopold, that of the Leopold Bench.
I have mentioned in other posts in the past the sweet tranquility of having a few benches placed throughout your forest, especially on a quiet place along the trail.
When reading Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, it is easy to imagine him sitting on one of these benches early in the morning contemplating the workings of the world and our place in it.
It is truly … (9 comments)

wildlife and forests: Kissing Moose & Wildlife Habitat Improvement with a Chainsaw! - 03/03/17 11:58 PM

Kissing Moose & Wildlife Habitat Improvement with a Chainsaw
I was watching Larry the cable guy on the History channel a while ago. They were up in Alaska trying to use a moose call to bring in some moose, and they were unsuccessful until one of the researchers brought out a chainsaw and started it up, and the moose came running in.

The head Wildlife Specialist at Woodland Management Service, Jesse Kulesa, always tells his clients that the best thing they can do to attract most wildlife is to do some cutting.
Having a winter timber sale or improvement cutting does … (9 comments)

wildlife and forests: Caution: Moose Can Be Cranky and Dangerous! - 01/29/17 11:51 PM

Moose not as warm and cuddly as they look.
Many of my friends ask questions like “how do you protect yourself from bears out there?”.
I answer that bears are seldom a problem, and certainly not worth carrying a heavy gun around for, but the Moose can be a real problem.
Though bear will generally run and hide, moose will often attack and it is best to have a good sized tree to get behind if you get too close to a moose.
Moose have adapted over the centuries to be mortal enemies of Wolves and thus will do their best to stomp any dogs … (10 comments)

wildlife and forests: Secrets to Great Hunting Land; 3 Essentials - 01/08/17 09:54 PM

3 Essentials for Great Hunting Land!

Deer like most wildlife species spend most of their time in what we call Edge areas.
These Edge areas are basically the place where the Three Essentials of all Wildlife Habitat exist, Food, Water, and Cover.
If you understand these essentials and how they apply to Whitetail Deer, and have them on your land then the deer will stay here.

Water
In this part of the country, water is seldom a problem with plentiful wetlands, ponds, streams, lakes and puddles just about everywhere.
In the event that you do not have any water nearby, it won’t take much for us to … (8 comments)

wildlife and forests: Delayed Maintenance, Good for Wisconsin Wildlife - 06/21/16 03:12 PM

Delayed Maintenance, Good for Wildlife
Every once in a while I find something fun in the SD cards that my Foresters drop on my desk.
Tonight I found a few enjoyable pictures on one that I thought you all would enjoy too.
This is from a week ago when I sent my son Nick over to a property of ours near Cadott Wisconsin to mow the lawn and do some maintenance.
He had barely unloaded the mower before noticing this little fellow hiding in the back yard.
Fortunately most of the work he had to do over there was out in the woods, since mowing the … (4 comments)

wildlife and forests: Ready for another week, why we care of our forestland properties. - 06/19/16 04:57 PM

Ready for another week
I hope that you all had a great fathers day weekend.
Mine was a busy one yesterday with Real Estate Law Training in Madison yesterday, checking on a few investment properties, and a few other projects.
Today was a true day of Rest with church activities in the morning and an afternoon of catching up on sleep to make up for the dozens of 3 hour nights this past month.
Sure felt good to catch up, and now I am ready for a new week.
Enjoy the video that Nick shot of a few of the reasons why we take such good … (4 comments)

wildlife and forests: The Results are in... Wildlife Habitat Preferences! - 06/07/16 04:54 PM

wildlife and forests: Making Your Land The Place Where Wildlife Want To Live! - 04/11/16 05:10 PM

Creating a Wildlife Paradise on My Land
Like humans, most wildlife species are looking for a great place to live, their habitat.
Great wildlife habitat includes a good mix of food, shelter, and water.
The main way forest and wildlife managers create habitat for wildlife is by managing the stages of forest succession.
Forest succession is basically the path that a forest takes from an open field, to young even aged trees, to older uneven aged trees, and finally to a mature climax forest.
Creating various wildlife habitats generally involves harvesting trees, planting trees, and or allowing … (5 comments)

wildlife and forests: LEASING HUNTING LAND; INCOME FOR LANDOWNERS, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT TOOL - 04/03/16 04:35 PM

LEASING HUNTING LAND; INCOME FOR LANDOWNERS, WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS, AND GREAT LAND FOR HUNTERS.

—By leasing out their land, woodland owners may be able to profit from the rich tradition of hunting that exists in Wisconsin. An untapped source of income could exist on property that sustains wildlife.

Having exclusive access to private land during hunting season is a price that many hunters are willing to pay. Leasing out deer hunting rights will not only increase a hunter’s chance of success, but the lease payments could be enough to cover landowners’ property taxes. The payments … (2 comments)

wildlife and forests: Sauk County Wisconsin, Leopold's Sand County - 04/03/16 02:18 PM

Sauk County Wisconsin, History, Recreation, and Wisconsin's Pioneer Forester
The beautiful sites in this county have attracted people for thousands of years.
From the original residents for whom it is named, to the loggers who floated logs and lumber down the Wisconsin River through the famous Wisconsin Dells.
Then Aldo Leopold who wrote his Sand County Almanac here.
People still flock to this area from around the world for the many beautiful sites including the Dells, State Parks, Wildlife Areas, and so much more.
When Aldo Leopold wrote 'A Sand County Almanac' he was sitting on his sandy tree farm along the … (1 comments)

wildlife and forests: Dunn County Wisconsin, Pines, Oaks, & Wildlife - 03/20/16 04:25 PM

220 Thousand Forest Acres Between the Twin Cities and Eau Claire, Dunn County Wisconsin
Great forest land for people who work in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) or Eau Claire and many of the people who live here have dual career families with a short commute to both of these urban areas.
Our clients at Woodland Management Service own some very nice forest land in this county and they are impressed with the aethetics, wildlife and forests here.
Dunn County is home to over 220 thousand acres of forest land.
Most of this forest land is Oak and Hickory comprising … (3 comments)

wildlife and forests: Waushara County Wisconsin, Pines Oak Wildlife 2016 - 03/20/16 04:17 PM

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Quality Oaks, Pines, and Wildlife, Waushara County Wisconsin
175 Thousand Acres of Forested Wildlife habitat can be found in this beautiful Central Wisconsin County.
Though the Oaks here are not spectacular, the pines are exceptional.
One delightful remnant of a foresters advice from the mid part of the last century stands out with spectacular results.
That bit of advice that he gave to all who planted pines here was to mix a little bit of White Pine in with all of the Red Pines that were being planted.
The result of planting this row of White Pine … (3 comments)

wildlife and forests: Whitetails, Turkey, and Oaks; Richland County Wisconsin - 03/20/16 04:10 PM

Richland County Wisconsin, Turkey, Whitetails, & Beauty

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Richland County Wisconsin, Turkey, Whitetails, & Beauty Richland County is a Wildlife paradise in the hills Northwest of Madison.
The big hills in this area of the state are an area where the glaciers bypassed and we find extensive Oak forests on the hills with farmland in the valleys. This all adds up to some prime habitat for Oak loving wildlife like Whitetail Deer and Turkeys.
Our clients at Woodland Management Service own land here for the bountiful wildlife and for the quality Oak timber.
The largest portion of this … (2 comments)

wildlife and forests: Kissing Moose & Wildlife Habitat Improvement with a Chainsaw - 03/20/16 03:21 PM

wildlife and forests: 137,000 Acres Forests, Along the Mississippi Bluffs, La Crosse County - 03/20/16 03:10 PM

La Crosse County Wisconsin, Forests & Wildlife on the Bluffs
137 Thousand Acres of Forested splendor can be found in La Crosse County stretching from the Mississippi on the west side and up onto the bluffs and Coulees as you move eastward through this popular county.
The Coulees in this area of the state are an area where the glaciers bypassed and we find extensive Oak forests on the hills with farmland in the valleys. This all adds up to some prime habitat for Oak loving wildlife like Whitetail Deer and Turkeys.
Our clients at Woodland Management Service own land here for … (4 comments)

wildlife and forests: Adams County, Wildlife, Oaks and Pines - 03/13/16 04:17 PM

Adams County, Sand County along the Wisconsin River, teaming with Wildlife and Forests
When Aldo Leopold wrote 'A Sand County Almanac' he was sitting on his sandy tree farm just a few miles down river from here in
Sauk County, but the terrain is about the same, miles of Pines, Oaks and other forests all growing on a flat sandy plain.
It is a great place to raise pines which is one of the reasons why you see the Wisconsin River lined with paper mills just a few miles north of here.
Just to the south of this county we find the world … (4 comments)

wildlife and forests: Overcrowed Deer Yards Can Spell Disaster! - 02/21/16 03:34 PM

Deer Yards, Inadequate Hunts, Deep Snows, Frigid Temps = Certain Starvation
This is a picture of a Deer Yard, notice the well pruned trees up as high as a deer can reach and lack of young seedlings. Generally when the snows get too deep for deer to travel they will yard up in a place like this.
The canopy of the Hemlocks in this photo create what we call thermal cover which is generally 10-20 degrees warmer than in the open or in a hardwood forest.
Unfortunately unless there is a clear cut right next to one of these deer yards, the meager vegetation within … (13 comments)

wildlife and forests: Oaks and Wildlife; Monroe County Wisconsin! - 02/21/16 03:23 PM

Oaks and Wildlife; Monroe County Wisconsin!
Monroe County is a Wildlife paradise with over 300 Thousand Acres of Forest land.
Our clients at Woodland Management Service own land here primarily for the bountiful wildlife but also for the quality timber.
Most of this 300 thousand acres of forest land is Oak with 164 thousand acres of Oak forests which provide premium deer and turkey habitat along with timber income. There are also 60 thousand acres of quality Red and Jack Pine forests which provide good winter habitat and good income for the forest landowners.
These forests are not only good for … (2 comments)

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