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Anatomy of creating a dual purpose food plot trail
Our challenge and project-
There were approximately 40-80 acres of ground on the most Southerly reaches of BHDC that we had never hunted. The area looked prime with some of the land slightly elevated relative to its surrounds and thick with tall white pine that the loggers must have missed a hundred years earlier, mature red pine, gorgeous red maple and abundant species of other northern hardwoods and conifers plus wet grassland areas and berries of all variety up the umpstump. Access was hindered by privately held parcels to the West and East, and virtually inaccessible ground to the South. To reach this ground from the BHDC ridges and higher ground required carving a trail directly through a near impenetrable cedar swamp. Once accomplished, it would be a snap to not only access this newly discovered prize, but be able to work the edges in between as well. Our thinking was that we could kill the proverbial two birds wth one stone were we to create an all weather, STV accessible trail that we also plant as a meandering food plot providing excellent forage for critters of many varierties within easy reach of the heavy cover they favored.
To be continued . . . .
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