#205 - Creating a Better Hunting Property By Managing Timber

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Sports & Recreation:outdoor, Sports & Recreation, Outdoor

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

My friends Larry Helmers, Ben and Keith Robinson have been working together on Larry's 80 acre property for the last four years to improve the wildlife habitat. The property is primarily timber and their management practices have greatly increased the number of animals that live on the property year round. When most whitetail hunters think of "land management" they think of creating food sources like food plots for wildlife. While this can be beneficial in some situations creating cover that is also a food source is a better long term solution to create a higher carrying capacity for wildlife. In this episode, the four of us discuss how they went about managing the timber and how the property went from being an average to below average place to hunt to being an incredible spot with multiple mature bucks, turkeys, and other game species living on it all year! Topics Include: -making a plan to manage timber -how improving timber stands creates more food for wildlife than food plots -how to do a prescribed burn and the benefits it has for wildlife Larry's Insagram Page - https://www.instagram.com/native_landscapes_ohio/ Ben's Instagram Page - https://www.instagram.com/benrobinson8483/ Keith's Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/OhioWild THP MERCH - https://bit.ly/30ZC1rm - Get 10% off THP Merch w/Code THPPODCAST GoWild - Save 10% on orders w/code THP - https://bit.ly/3i4c15r OPTICS - 10% off Vortex Optics w/code THP10 - https://bit.ly/3AOdKDQ TURKEY CALLS - Get 10% off Woodhaven Calls w/coupon code - THP2022 - http://bit.ly/2IagiSe MAPPING - Get 20% Off OnX Hunt! Use promo code THP: https://bit.ly/3qCKryJ BOW ACCESSORIES - Get 20% off TROPHY RIDGE products w/code - THP21 - http://bit.ly/2Lol7Yx BOWS - Save 10% off all Bear Equipment w/code THP10 - http://bit.ly/2JW7OzP TICK REPELLANT - Learn about all Sawyer outdoor products - https://sawyer.com/lyme-disease/ TRAIL CAMERAS - Get 10% off Exodus Trail Cameras w/ code - THP10 - https://bit.ly/3lwNlpE GAME PROCESSING - MEAT! products - Free shipping on orders over $99 w/code - THP10 - https://bit.ly/2DzgTQ8v TREE SADDLES - Check out Tethrd saddles and platforms! - http://bit.ly/2Td2Wcr Follow us on Facebook at The Hunting Public Follow us on Instagram at The Hunting Public

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, appreciate you tuning in on this episode. We're gonna be talking with Larry Helmers and Ben and Keith Robinson
0:06.3	So these guys have been my friends for a long time and what's cool about the three of them is they're all
0:12.2	Public land hunters, but they're also really involved in land management as well in 2018
0:18.2	Larry actually bought an 80 acre property and what they've done with that property is just amazing
0:23.8	There's a lot of timber on the landscape, but what these guys have done to improve those timber stands is just incredible
0:30.4	When I think of timber-stand improvements, I always think that that's more of a long-term project that you're not really gonna
0:37.6	See results from four or five to ten years or more, but just in four years these guys have seen major changes in the way that
0:45.4	Wildlife is interacting with the landscape and it's all due to the management that they've been practicing on that property
0:51.9	So in this podcast, we're gonna be talking about what they've done on that 80 acres their entire thought process from the day Larry bought it to
1:00.4	Present day. I think if you have land or you're interested in helping friends manage for wildlife better on their properties
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