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Fri Oct 6 11:06:04 PDT 2017

I spend more time hunting than I ever did but it is usually hunting for the
last thing I laid down 5 minutes ago...
I no longer hunt rabbits, never did hunt squirrels or quail. Squirrels and
quail were too scarce in my community back in those days. We have a lot
more squirrels now and most years plenty of rabbits (they breed like
bunnies)  :-)  but the quail have disappeared again. It has also been many
years since I have seen a pheasant. Too many Midwest farmers doing
"scorched earth" farming and too many coyotes I guess. The whitetail deer
were pretty much gone here but came back with a vengeance in about the 80's
/ 90's and at one point were so bad they about broke me from extreme crop
damage. They have leveled off now and while I see a few, crop damage is
negligible. Now of course my grain land is cash rented. The rest is in
grass for our 6 loved but totally useless horses (several were rescues) and
about a dozen client horses. The 17 acre "mini-farm" in the next county
east is all in trees.
We don't see English walnuts here but maybe 30 years ago my mother bought a
small one and asked me to plant it for her. It has done well but the
squirrels usually beat me to its generous supply of nuts. The upside is
that their burying of them has generated a lot of new trees and some of
those are starting to bear now. I'm slowly moving a few around the farm.
The return of the squirrels also means that the black walnuts here are
being reproduced and I have at least 150 young ones growing now. I won't
see any return from them of course but son Scott should. This is very good
deep soil and they grow remarkably fast.
i don't usually plant black walnuts but I do have some control over where
they come up. Back some years ago we were raising sheep and fenced them
mostly with electric fence. Sheep are sometimes  tough to fence with
electric fence. To keep the fence from shorting out through the weeds and
grass I would spray under the fence with Glyphosate the first thing I noted
was that quite soon that strip under the fence became a mole magnet and
they would absolutely riddle that strip then leave. They appeared to be
eating all of the roots of the sprayed vegetation (shrug). That super
loosened that soil for about 4 inches deep. Next came the squirrels who
buried all of their food in that narrow strip. Seems that they like easy
digging. Then I noticed that what I was then spraying out from under the
fence was new black walnut sprouts. I said "Hey, I can use this". I grabbed
the garden sprayer and started spraying 18" round spots all over the woods
and along the creek and at the end of one pasture lot. That is basically
where my current black walnut stand came from.

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On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Grouse hunting sounds like fun. On monday the moosehunt will begin here.
>
> Med vänlig hälsning
>
> Mattias Kessén
>
>
> Sent from my not so smart phone.
>
> Den 6 okt. 2017 05:03 skrev "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>:
>
> > I have worked at sawmills all of my life, but I know very little about
> the
> > actual harvesting. But I will tell you one story. I used to be an avid
> > hunter, but I don't do much hunting anymore. When I was hunting quite a
> bit
> > I would hunt grouse in the mountains of North Carolina. One particular
> > track of land my dog and I used to work was a mixture of clear bald, and
> > scrub forest. One early fall, before the season, I took my dog out to do
> a
> > little refresher training. I ran across an older gentleman. This was the
> > early 1980s, at the time he was probably 80 years old. He told me that
> all
> > the cleared areas that I saw he logged with a mule over a period of three
> > summers. He lived in a tent while he cut timer and he and his mule drug
> > logs out.
> >
> > Back when men were men...
> >
> > PS: For the North Carolina list members, this was the gap between Clinch
> > Mountain, and Elk Knob, between Meat Camp and Zionsville.  I lived there
> at
> > the time, but I understand it is a state game land now.
> >
> > PSS:  For anyone that wants an interesting story, I can be talked into
> > discussing fighter jets, grouse hunting, and Appalachia.
> >
> > Spencer Yost
> >
> > > On Oct 2, 2017, at 1:09 AM, Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.atl.nu/skog/fran-minibandare-till-kvistare-kapare/
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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