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Maximize Deer Populations, More Does, Balance, Better Rut
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
12/31/24 • 75 min
In this episode of Maximize Your Hunt, host Jon Teater discusses the complexities of deer management with Rocky Burruss (SA Farm Management Service). They explore the responsibilities of hunters in managing both deer populations and habitats, share personal hunting success stories, and delve into the dynamics of deer populations and management strategies. The conversation emphasizes the importance of creating ideal habitats for deer while balancing populations with neighboring hunters' practices. In this conversation, Teater and Burruss discuss the complexities of deer management, emphasizing the importance of habitat quality, understanding deer behavior, and tailoring management strategies to local conditions. Both argue against a one-size-fits-all approach to deer management, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of population dynamics and the impact of environmental factors. Teater highlights the need for education in the hunting community to promote sustainable practices and improve hunting success.
Takeaways:
- Hunters have a responsibility to manage both deer populations and habitats.
- Successful deer management requires understanding the dynamics of herd populations.
- Creating a balanced forage environment is crucial for deer health.
- Personal hunting success stories can provide insights into effective management strategies.
- The best hunting properties often have minimal human interference.
- Controlling daylight movement of deer can enhance hunting success.
- Deer populations can self-regulate under certain conditions.
- Habitat quality directly impacts deer health and population dynamics.
- Strategic doe management can lead to healthier buck populations.
- Collaboration with neighboring hunters is essential for effective deer management. Managing deer populations requires understanding local conditions.
- Habitat quality directly influences deer health and hunting success.
- Population dynamics are affected by environmental factors and hunting pressure.
- Education is crucial for effective deer management strategies.
- Tailoring management practices to specific properties can yield better results.
- Deer behavior varies significantly based on habitat and hunting pressure.
- Sustainable hunting practices can lead to healthier deer populations.
- Collaboration with neighbors can enhance deer management efforts.
- Selective harvesting can improve the quality of deer in an area.
- A balanced approach to doe and buck management is essential for population growth.
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Next Generation Switchgrass Stands for Better Habitat
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
02/27/24 • 63 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Roger Samson (REP-Canada) discuss improved warm season grass varieties that are available to habitat managers. Roger explains his experience and natural grasses. Roger goes over the history of Switchgrass and other varieties like Cave in Rock and Blackwell. Roger details the original focus of switchgrass and benefits of cattle, mining locations, reclamation, mulching, and biofuels.
Roger explains the evolution of switchgrass, prior switchgrass problems such as slow emergence, morphology, seedling vigor, etc. Roger worked to solve these issues, taking 30 years to establish a breeding program that created taller, erect, and quick emergence grasses. Roger and Jon discuss wildlife uses and the benefits to our soil, and soil habitat.
Roger explains the advanced developed varieties of switchgrass, RC Big Rock and RC Tecumseh, and the benefits compared to prior varieties. Roger explains the differences in physical characteristics and the purpose behind each, and what varieties would be adapted to specific site conditions (rain, heat, etc.). Jon and Roger dialogue about developing plants that can stand taller, more erect, and withstand ice and snow loads.
Roger discusses new planting methods and a new variety of big bluestem variety that will soon be in the market. Roger details specifics on plant spacing and why solid seeding stands may not be the best option. Roger discusses options for planting that provides ideal spacing for ground birds (turkey).
Roger discusses the cost variances of switchgrass versus other options like miscanthus, specifically miscanthus giganteus. Roger explains the performance variances versus miscanthus and the morphology as compared to other non-native plants. Roger details all the benefits of switchgrass why these next generation varieties outcompete other grass types. Roger explains more on herbicides, combinations of plantings and frost seeding as an option.
Social Links
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Build Better Deer, Winter Food, Survival
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
02/20/24 • 41 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Matt Ross (National Deer Alliance) discuss what we can do to better our landscapes and considerations for improving deer health into the winter months. Matt discusses his history at Quality Deer Management and the NDA, his background and land management strategies that support our deer herds. Matt discusses factors that land managers can control and what is most critical this time of year. Matt focuses on food sources in the summer and fall to support our deer through the winter.
Matt explains deer biology and what is essential to support deer health leading up to winter months. Matt discusses deer’s metabolic state and what behavior changes happen through the winter months. Matt explains a misnomer that most are unfamiliar with as it pertains to a deer’s diet. Matt discusses weight loss and how deer sustain themselves through the hardest months of the year.
Matt provides explanations on how to techniques to measure deer health with evaluating fat content to determine current body condition. Matt and Jon discuss winter severity and impacts on the deer, and how to measure this on your landscape. Jon provides an explanation of how he attacks the winter improvement to support deer and what calculation he uses to evaluate deer numbers and impact on the landscape.
Matt and Jon discuss food preferences in the winter. Matt details specific plants and provides a rule to help support/ensure that your deer meet the baseline diet, and what we can do to increase the gains in the summer months. Matt and Jon discuss what foods, trees and shrubs deer prefer in the winter months. Matt discusses natural ecology and the examples of techniques you can use to benefit your deer and the resultant landscape. Matt and Jon discuss deer fecal matter, and explain methods of how to use pellet counts to measure deer and the volume of fecal matter. Matt and Jon talk about what plants deer should not be eating and plants that are indicators of poor-quality habitat.
Social Links
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https://whitetaillandscapes.com/
Healthy Forest, Low Grade Timber Removal, and Better Habitat for Deer
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
02/13/24 • 64 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes), discusses a hat giveaway this week from Whitetail Company. If you want to get in on the giveaway, please email me [email protected]. This week Greg Berndtson (Berndtson Timber Management) and Jon talk forestry, logging, and deer. Greg is a forester and logger, and provides his background and management tactics that are intended to evolve properties as we know it. Greg explains the equipment he uses afield to manage his jobs to ensure he can perform and work is done efficiently.
Jon discusses ecological restoration, low grade timber and goal setting. Greg explains how to approach valuing timber and future potential. Greg explains what is good versus bad timber and what tree species we may want to keep or get rid of your property. Greg talks about diversity and what species in his region are considered low grade and explains the market option for low grade. Greg talks about steering the forest in a healthy direction and what you can do as a landowner.
Greg explains the human dynamic of property management, evaluating a property and why our forests need good work to ensure that commercial harvest creates better quality down the road. Greg explains the step-by-step process to changing the forest, and how he approaches the understory and overstory of our woodlots to improve areas for silviculture purposes. Greg mentions the legacy impacts of deer browse and harm it creates to better quality habitat that most are trying to develop.
Greg and Jon discuss forest health and looking at individual trees to determine what trees we want to keep on the landscape. Greg provides a formula on general and specific tree species to consider when making decisions to cut or leave. Greg explains the volume (in tonnage) that he would consider reasonable for considering a low-grade timber job. Greg the benefits of his business for clients and what doing good forestry means to him. Greg and Jon end with discussions around building a better property around an equation of smart timber management, resulting in better deer and deer habitat.
Social Links
http://www.berndtsontimber.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BerndtsonTimberManagement/
https://whitetaillandscapes.com/
Deer Data, Hunting Prep, and Summer Food
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
07/25/23 • 45 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Eric Lance (Hunt Science Podcast) discuss the upcoming next several months and how they both approach their hunting properties. Jon and Eric discuss the top activity you can do this time of year to prepare yourself for hunting season. Eric explains the activity levels on his property and how he establishes routine happenings that do not dissuade his deer.
Eric discusses the methods of collecting data on deer to include GPS collaring and related information that can benefit our hunting. Eric and Jon discuss thermal drone imagery and how important using tools like this can be to enhancing our knowledge of deer’s whereabouts. Eric discusses fawn recruitment and techniques to evaluate survival at birth and otherwise.
Jon explains how to shrink deer movement on your property. Eric explains why not to focus on deer home ranges, but focusing solely on habitat is one of the more important facets that you as a land manager can control. Eric discusses things that GPS or telemetry studies do not tell us, such as how our deer behave in social groups. Jon explains a theory that will enhance your understanding of deer movement and why summer and winter food is critical to enticing deer onto your property. Eric supports the idea that spring and summer food is critical to our deer and how we need to support our deer through stress periods, improving the quality of our deer throughout the following years. Eric explains the impact of predators on the landscapes. Eric provides a surprising bit of rationale on why predator control may not be on the top of your list when it comes to deer populations and survival.
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Social Links
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Next Level Bedding Areas, Hinge Cutting and Doe Factories
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
05/16/23 • 31 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) discusses giveaways under the podcast. Jon explains working with clients and what he has as recent takeaways. Jon discusses his recent visit with Jim Ward (Jim Ward’s Whitetail Academy) and how they had a chance to discuss next level bed building techniques to hold and house our deer.
Jon discusses how to build bedding locations and how to reverse engineer the bedding design to ensure deer use them and are huntable. Jon explains new concepts such as food forests, and how to get deer more on your property with various techniques. Jon discusses various topics around improving the food in our forest. Jon explains the simplicity around regenerative agriculture. Jon explains why hinge cutting is one of the best and worst tools, but if time is not on your side this may be your best option.
Jon discusses his technique and purpose behind hinge cutting. Jon explains the importance of nutritional ecology and considers that when deciding what technique to employ in a bedding area. Jon explains how to layout and what considerations or essentials to cutting out a bedding area and how sometimes close canopy is your best option. Jon discusses how to manipulate wind on the landscape to benefit the deer and or hunter. Jon explains what is lacking on most of our landscapes, how to observe and fix it for good.
Jon ends with what is a doe factory and explains how to dismiss and change the mindset that seems to dissuade land managers from adding food all season. Jon provides an immediate recommendation that will change your property to balance your deer hunting.
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Getting Creative with Wildflower Plantings
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
05/09/23 • 45 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Travis Harmon (Creative Habitat) discuss the current state of the weather and why you are not behind if you have not started preparing for or developing a meadow or wildflowers mix on the landscape. Travis discusses the ideal time to seed plants to achieve success this time of year. Travis explains the importance of chemicals and burning. Travis identifies why it's extremely important to reduce weed competition early to support our warm season plantings.
Travis explains more about seed germination, the importance of a sterile seed bed and managing the existing seed bank is essential as more broadleaf plants develop over time. Jon discusses the method of planting a pollinator blend versus a meadow and how they should be laid out. Why soil samples are not the top of the list of activities for Travis when he is creating his habitat layouts.
Travis and Jon discuss the use of herbicides and burning, and why discing is a bad idea to establish pollinator plantings. Travis explains the significance of moisture and timing of plantings to ensure plants take root and become well contacted with the soil. Travis explains the mix he would use to create habitat for bees and butterflies and attraction for deer. Travis details what seeds he would not plant in his blends. Jon discusses how to handle deer populations and their preferences as well as strategies to keep your deer away from specific areas.
Travis explains the minimal maintenance that is required to keep weeds at bay. Travis explains why mowing may be a better option than burning a wildflower area. Travis explains how wildflowers used in a hunting design can create separation from neighbors that may or may not align with hunting and harvest goals. Travis suggests that listeners think more about transforming their yard and save money from less mowing.
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Building the Ultimate Property with Equipment
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
05/02/23 • 49 min
In this episode, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Jim Ward (Jim Ward’s Whitetail Academy) discuss equipment for building the best whitetail habitat. Jim and Jon explain recent client trips and how frequently he works on client properties. Jim details places he has worked and how he travels across the country improving hunting properties.
Jon and Jim discuss equipment that is essential for doing habitat work. Jim explains the best equipment options for landowners. Jon explains the equipment that they bring to clients to ensure work can get done timely. Jim explains equipment that seems to provide the most efficient means to organize your ATV and UTV. Jim explains the importance of trail size and how to design a property for doing habitat work
Jim walks through the process of cutting each area and how he organizes a trail system in concert with designing in food and bedding. Jim explains the importance of smaller trail systems and managing the timber in concert with the access and deer trails. Jim explains the type of chainsaws he uses and how to remove stumps in and around the trail systems and food plots.
Jim explains how to design food plots when removing trees, and when to remove trees and/or leave stumps. Additionally, Jim explains the importance of leaving existing root systems when establishing food plots and how excavation can be a detriment to the plants you ultimately will grow to attract deer. Jim explains equipment options when using a skid steer and what attachment will benefit your equipment and layout.
Jim explains the best equipment option for most applications. Jim discusses why he uses and recommends this key implement more so than others to reduce erosion, put in ponds and waterholes and food plots. Jim explains the use of a dozer and how he personally setups properties using a dozer for ideal bedding and movement. Jim breaks down a bedding area and how he cuts timber. Jon explains his perspective on bedding and criteria he uses to improve deer interest and ensure deer use bedding areas. Jon and Jim discuss the importance of light equipment and specific equipment options that will save your bank account and back.
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Social Links
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Criteria for Buying Hunting Land
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
04/25/23 • 46 min
In this podcast, Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Tim Russell (Green Fire Forestry & Wildlife Services) discuss what to consider when buying hunting land. Tim explains how to think differently about your forest and what trees might be most meaningful from a wildlife or economic standpoint. Tim and Jon discuss site indexes and the benefit to timber. Tim provides resources that help evaluate property quality and gives an idea where the best location is for food plots. Tim discusses GIS and how to evaluate changes in the forest and what areas have the potential for future timber. Tim discusses the importance of doing remote analysis on properties before stepping foot to do the legwork. Tim and Jon explain diversity on these properties and Tim identifies the type of property he would purchase.
Tim explains the importance of access for equipment and hunting. Tim discusses how to manage property and what he would choose if he had an option of field or timber. Both contributors assess property in increments and steps, explaining important criteria to valuing property. Tim explains the importance of thinking through the money and time elements of a property before purchase, and not pushing land buying budget without thinking about improvements. Also, Tim explains why smaller properties might be a better option for buyers. Jon discusses the importance of solar radiation and how it influences deer movement and forest stands. Tim and Jon discuss the benefits of water sources on the property, how to utilize water as a friend and increase deer usage in specific areas. Jon discusses drought proofing your property and how you can improve elements of your property to be more productive. Tim breaks down and provides clients options to consider when weighing timber improvements but not losing focus on hunting. Jon explains how to break down and evaluate a field and improve it with different ways to better support deer utilization.
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Advanced Strategies for Switchgrass, Better Stands, Fire, Habitat and Maintenance
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management
02/11/25 • 57 min
In this episode of 'Maximize Your Hunt', host Jon Teater (Whitetail Landscapes) and Roger Samson (REAP-Canada) discuss effective strategies for managing hunting properties, focusing on the use of switchgrass. The conversation covers the importance of soil health, the establishment of switchgrass, varietal differences, planting techniques, maintenance, and herbicide management. Expert Roger Sampson shares insights from his extensive experience in agronomy and switchgrass breeding, emphasizing the plant's resilience and adaptability. The episode provides practical advice for landowners looking to enhance their properties for hunting and wildlife habitat. This conversation delves into the effective management and planting techniques for switchgrass, highlighting innovative methods, improved varieties, and the importance of understanding planting density. The speakers discuss the role of burning in enhancing switchgrass growth, strategies for creating diverse habitats, and the safe use of herbicides for weed control. They emphasize the need for careful planning and scouting to ensure successful switchgrass establishment and management, while also providing resources for habitat managers.
Takeaways
- Be patient; land management is a journey.
- Switchgrass can thrive in marginal soils.
- Soil health is crucial for successful switchgrass growth.
- Choose adapted varieties for your specific area.
- Planting techniques can significantly affect standability.
- Burning should be a last resort for young switchgrass for maintenance.
- Frost seeding is an effective method for establishing switchgrass.
- Herbicide management is essential for site preparation.
- Timing of planting and maintenance activities is critical.
- Switchgrass can improve soil health over time. Plant switchgrass early to ensure moisture resources.
- Improved switchgrass varieties can yield impressive growth.
- Planting density should be adjusted based on site conditions.
- Burning switchgrass can enhance soil warmth and nutrient availability.
- Creating diverse habitats benefits wildlife populations.
- Fire management is crucial for safety and effective growth.
- Herbicide application timing is critical for switchgrass health.
- Scout your fields regularly to assess weed pressure.
- Engage with local habitat managers for practical advice.
- Utilize online resources for peer support and education.
Social Links
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1274817483284551
https://whitetaillandscapes.com/
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How many episodes does Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management have?
Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management currently has 168 episodes available.
What topics does Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management cover?
The podcast is about Conservation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Consulting, Bow Hunting, Hunting, Outdoors, Wildlife, Podcasts, Fishing, Sports, Deer Hunting, Diversity and Wilderness.
What is the most popular episode on Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management?
The episode title 'Redefining Deer Habitat Design and Management, Master Class' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management?
The average episode length on Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management is 48 minutes.
How often are episodes of Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management released?
Episodes of Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management?
The first episode of Whitetail Landscapes - Hunting & Habitat Management was released on Jan 4, 2022.
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