Abby-USA October eWire for Sportsmen and Outdoor Enthusiasts 10-31-2010

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Chronic Wasting Disease

Maintenance Tips For Cool Season Grasses

Managing Native Vegetation for Whitetailed Deer

What We Know About Scrapes

Amazing Antlers
Chronic Wasting Disease
Media Services, Abby-USA
Walnut, MS

As many of us have learned over the past few years, chronic wasting disease can be a difficult subject. Because let’s face it, how many of us can actually say we know what it is?

Well, the powers that be at the Boone and Crockett Club, Mule Deer Foundation and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation have teamed up to develop a website that should provide you with all you will ever need to know about the disease while dispelling any myths you may have come across.
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Maintenance Tips For Cool Season Grasses
Pennington Seed

# Cool season grasses are planted in the fall or early spring and remain green year-round with proper maintenance.

# Re-seeding to thicken the stand is often necessary, as cool season grasses tend to thin out somewhat during the hot summer months.

# These grasses should be fertilized with a complete, controlled release lawn food in the spring and fall.

# If weeds are a problem, use a crabgrass preventer in late winter before weeds begin to germinate. If weeds persist in the spring, apply a weed and feed instead of lawn food.

# If re-seeding an existing lawn in the fall, apply a lawn starter fertilizer to encourage strong root growth.

QDMA Articles : Managing Native Vegetation for Whitetailed Deer
By John Johnson,  QDMA  For many years hunters and outdoor enthusiasts have planted food plots to improve the nutrition available to their deer herd and increase their chances of harvesting a quality buck. While this is a good practice, food plots typically represent only 1-5 percent of the available habitat on most hunting properties. What about the other 95-99 percent? Clearly, food plots are only one piece of a total management program. The purpose of this article is to introduce you to a relatively new management concept-total vegetation management. This program involves managing native vegetation and supplementing these forages with planted food plots during critical periods of the year.
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Planting Method for Wildlife Products
By Pennington Seed

Planting Method:
Prepare a smooth, firm seedbed by plowing and dragging the soil. This will remove all vegetation and debris from the site thus eliminating competition. Fertilizer and lime can be applied during this step so it can be worked into the soil. Broadcast the seed at the recommended rate evenly across the area. Using a light drag or packer, cover the seed no deeper than the maximum depth indicated. Making good seed to soil contact is the key to establishing a productive food plot.

Fertility Soil test:
Apply lime according to test results to maintain a 6.0-7.0 pH

Fertility:
Apply Pennington Wildlife Food Plot Fertilizer 8-12-12 at a rate of 400 lbs./acre or 10 pounds per 1000 sq. ft. Follow the directions on the bag for subsequent applications. This fertilizer is specially formulated for wildlife food plots as well as native and natural vegetation. It is made up of slow release nitrogen fertilizer that will last for months. It has all the major and minor nutrients your plants will need such as iron, zinc, boron and many more. In addition, it contains dolomitic pelletized limestone to aid in neutralizing acidic soils.

QDMA Articles : How to Purchase Your Own Hunting Property
by Virgil Peritts,  QDMA Most deer hunters have spent many hours wondering how they could own their own hunting property. In my case, it was a 418-acre property that adjoined another I leased for hunting. I was constantly looking over the fence into a 40-acre field that always contained abundant game. It seemed like the largest bucks were always on this property. I tried convincing the landowner to let me to hunt and fish on his land, but to no avail. Then all of the sudden, this beautiful property came up for sale. Unfortunately, for much more than I could afford. Does this sound familiar?
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