Ep. 350: Can Whitetail Habitat Managers Do Better? with Lindsay Thomas Jr.
Wired To Hunt Podcast
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4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show I'm joined by Lindsay Thomas Jr. of the Quality Deer Management Association for a terrific and varied conversation about whitetail habitat management and how we can all do a little better.
Topics discussed:
- How conservation organizations have been impacted by COVID-19
- What we can do to help support QDMA and other conservation organizations at this time
- How deer habitat management has evolved over the past few decades
- If Lindsay could change one thing about deer habitat managers, it would be ...
- Why plant and tree ID matters
- Does invasive and non-native species management really matter?
- Desirable weeds and tree species to look for
- What a "green" or "low impact" food plot means
- How to plant more environmentally friendly and beneficial food plots
- Safety considerations and environmental impacts of herbicide use
- Erosion, tillage, no-till and other soil considerations
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | You're home for dear hunting news stories and strategies. |
| 0:10.1 | And now your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm your host, Mark Kenyon, and this is episode number 350. |
| 0:21.0 | In today's show, I'm joined by Lindsay Thomas Jr. of the Quality Deer Management Association |
| 0:26.3 | for a terrific and varied conversation about white-tail habitat improvement and conservation |
| 0:32.1 | and how we can all do better. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello my friends and welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast brought to you by OnEx. |
| 0:43.4 | Today we've got Lindsay Thomas Jr. here on the show. |
| 0:46.6 | And Lindsay is the communications director over at the QDMA. |
| 0:50.2 | He is a terrific outdoor writer and an avid deer hunter and habitat worker from Georgia. |
| 0:55.6 | And today I'm chatting with him on a variety of habitat and conservation related topics. |
| 1:00.2 | Things such as whether or not we should really care about controlling non-native or invasive |
| 1:05.1 | species or why and how hunters can get better plant identification or ideas for planting |
| 1:12.1 | lower impact environmentally friendly food plots. |
| 1:14.9 | There's just lots and lots of interesting things here to cover. |
| 1:19.2 | And I think this should be said. |
| 1:21.0 | I think there's a lot of content out there today teaching us how to create quick fix, fast |
| 1:25.9 | and easy habitat improvements that maybe help our hunting a bit here and there. |
| 1:30.3 | But if there's any overarching message that I can take from the conversation I have with |
| 1:34.8 | Lindsay, it was that we can do better. |
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