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Post by Mockingbird on Oct 27, 2007 18:07:39 GMT -5
We had a presentation by one of the Feds from the soil conservation dept at our club recently. They are offering a lot of help developing small game habitat if any landowners are interested. It sounded like a good deal without a lot of strings attached. You can get all the info at your county office. Indiana has realized the need for small game management in order to recruit young hunters and this is part of that emphasis.
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Post by TagTeamHunter on Nov 1, 2007 22:38:07 GMT -5
Let hope that it has some positive results for the small game population in Indiana. Anything to get kids into hunting is a good thing. I tell you my kid enjoy walking around in the woods to setting inside a blind for hours on end. Small game hunting is an excellent way to introduce young people to hunting.
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Post by danf on Nov 4, 2007 21:14:49 GMT -5
Any particulars on what kind of assistance they are offering?
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Post by dadfsr on Nov 5, 2007 8:52:49 GMT -5
Same question here-exactly what and who?? I'm land rich and money poor.....have been wanting to do some things but budget only allows a little and it's mostly been the labor on my part.
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Post by jackc99 on Nov 8, 2007 15:47:52 GMT -5
Contact your local soil and water conservation districts folks, the NRCS office, the local Pheasants Forever or Quail Forever or Quail Unlimited chapers. They can all help you in some way. Also there is a private lands coordinator at the DNR (Gary Langell 812/334-1137). We do 6-10 habitat projects each year in our PF chapter.
Jack
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Post by parrothead on Nov 19, 2007 15:34:50 GMT -5
An easy thing to do and it is the right time year is Christmas trees. I have put out probably 200 in the last 3 years. Rabbits love them as well as other critters.
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Post by Mockingbird on Nov 19, 2007 20:41:08 GMT -5
I am mostly into the rabbit thing and for Switzerland County it is Ken Lane of the NRCS office that we talked to. They offered our club with the help of a local farmer a deal we could not refuse to develop natural grasses on our property. I hope to get the farmer I hunt on into the program next year. In the meantime I have been putting out wooden packing skids with brush piled on for escape cover. You have to be careful where you put them for when they rot you have nails left. In areas where this is a problem I put out three to four foot pieces of 3" -4"flex drain pipe covered by brush. Salt pellets put out in Feb & march are real helpful too. I wonder if anyone has done squirrel habitat on purpose. Right now the turkeys are putting the hurt on squirrels in my area because they eat up a lot of the late winter mast that is under the leaves for the sows to use to feed their young in Feb & March. I try to keep the turkeys run out of my best woods. Anybody got any ideas on squirrels?
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Post by parrothead on Nov 20, 2007 14:44:11 GMT -5
Mockingbird,
sent you a pm
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Post by steiny on Nov 24, 2007 18:53:40 GMT -5
If you have field, you could talk to a local tree trimmer and tell him you've got a spot for him to dump limbs and brush. A weedy field full of brush piles will hold a ton of rabbits.
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