4 Hot Trees You Need On Your Deer Hunting Land

Whitetail Habitat Solutions
Whitetail Habitat Solutions
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Published 2019-04-23
The best wildlife and whitetail trees for your hunting land unfortunately will not deliver high values at the lumber mill. However, these 4 deer habitat gems will deliver an exceptionally high value for your hunting land! Are you managing timber or wildlife habitat? Make sure to never allow a "wildlife professional" to pursuade you to remove these 4 highly important deer habitat and wildlife tree varieties. Box elder, aspen, basswood and soft maple are money when it comes to creating great deer habitat, wildlife cover and quality deer hunting parcels. If your ultimate goal is to manage great wildlife populations, quality deer herds and a quality deer hunting parcel, them make sure that you have more of these tree varieties, and fewer high dollar hardwoods.
All Comments (21)
  • @markpiersall9815
    Professor Coggeshall's favorite Silvopasture tree is the Swamp White Oak. See his three part video from Missouri Agroforestry. He claims it's acorns are preferred by whitetail deer and turkey over White and Bur Oak. It begins bearing acorns at five to seven years like a fruit tree. It bears consistent large mast from year to year.
  • @coreyfrasnelly7364
    Box elders make good switches 😂.....my dad showed me that when I was young
  • @montanasoneeyejack5195
    I like the info you bring to the real hunting community!!! Thanks for keeping it real and not trying to sell us on BS..!!! You Rock Jeff!!
  • @rfb7117
    Jeff, again a great video!!!!! We also always referred to box elder as "junk trees" and tried to eliminate them until we found they were one of the best trees to survive hinge cutting and produce HORIZONTAL cover. We also had GREAT SUCCESS in clearcutting Aspen, as the regrowth from the root system produced phenomenal cover and deer browse...even the grouse enjoyed the younger Aspen. Recovery is slow, looking forward to going over your info with my hunting partner!!! Really GREENING up here since the rain last evening, anxious to spray. thanks, Bob
  • @billjennifermeyer9545
    We enjoy your videos and long time subscribers in Jo Daviess County, IL. We're the guys you speak of that have been eliminating the Box Elders as prescribed in our forestry plan. Our main objective is timber production as our land is heavily populated with Black Walnut (and tons of deer). We have several bedding areas that are thick with red cedar that we will not disturb. The areas where hardwood regeneration is desirable will be free of Box Elders and other invasive species that all compete for sunlight. I guess the point is you can manage your land for both timber production and deer habitat. Thank you again for all of the excellent videos.
  • @user-wu9sk7fs7v
    this is great. the biggest buck i ever shot with the bow i nicknamed the box elder buck. i cut some box elders down to put a small plot in, left a bunch standing, and let the stumps because it grows back almost instant browse. my treestand is in a box elder.😁
  • @nathaniellarson8
    Very interesting. We have a chunk that has a really good mix of trees, the main big old ones are Oak, but there are lots of Aspen, Birch, Sugar Maple, Basswood, Boxelder, and some Red Maple mixed in. Tons of Buckthorn of course. The hinge cut thing is interesting and makes a lot of sense, nature tends to do that on it's own every so often, as evidenced by our woods that is full of trees pushed over by the wind at a 45 or less degree angle that have vertical "trunks" sprouting off them the same size as the main trunk. I've been watching a bunch of your videos in the last couple of days and now feel like I know just enough to get started in a direction, I will continue to watch. Thank you.
  • @jstraus34
    awesome information! I've got my logger in my property for the same reason you are saying. Can't manage for timber and wildlife well, need to make a choice.
  • @mainenorthwoodshunter3265
    Great video, thanks for the information as always. About time to get some mineral licks going up here in MAINE. Good Hunting!
  • @robertmacdonald4878
    Thank you for mentioning BOX ELDER TREES .. you are correct... they are a awesome tree and I am using extensively in my reforestation project for wildlife enhancement. Thank you. Robert MacDonald Wildlife control service Canada 🇨🇦
  • @mikeclement5383
    I love conifers. I need more conifers. Conifers are great for making your woods look more awesome in winter. Norway Spruce in the winter look like works of art.
  • @jm2754
    I’d be curious as to what you’d recommend for ironwood trees. Our property is in SW WI and was logged for oaks 15-20 years ago and there’s a good amount of oaks left, more young maple, and a few cherry trees but in some areas the ironwood trees are thick. You can count hundreds just standing in one spot. Would you recommend just clearing those things out if you have the manpower? I see them as worthless because the buds are all up high, the block light, and hinge cut like junk. But just not sure.
  • @ashleysmith4191
    Hi Jeff, if you only have 8 acres purely for hunting and most of it were creek bottom within a saddle, what sorts of ideas would you try to implement? I’m in Georgia, specifically Middle Ga.
  • @Linedriveification
    Jeff, what do you think about planting Wild Plum trees for a cover/bedding area?