I've read a fair amount of bad things happening to folks on forums over the years. Mostly typical things; limbs breaking, stands stolen etc. But have you ever lost 30 acres. Went hunting this morning and found that 30 of the 40 acers was bulldozed under. I mean parking lot clear. Seems the owner of the land sold the hard wood trees and the company that bought them cleared out every thing. They pushed the refuse to the edge of the tree line creating a barricade in front of the 10 remaining acers. How about that for bad luck.

Sorry to hear it...that stinks!

Thats stinks..............for this year. Wait unitl next year when that whole area is nasty brush and the deer pile in for you. For now, try cutting a path through the barricade for those lazy deer to find, ambush them on the other side.

This is the first time you've looked at where you hunt in a year?

Yep, that sucks alright.

QuoteOriginally posted by PEARL DRUMS:
For now, try cutting a path through the barricade for those lazy deer to find, ambush them on the other side.

   

Can the "LandOwner" say  "GLOBAL WARMING"????   Just Burns MY Arse  when  GREED  gets in the way of  NATURAL/NATURE!!!   :mad:    :mad:    :mad:      You Dont  FOOL  with Mother Nature!!

Yep, I know that one.  The land where I killed my first buck with a bow was strip mined a few years ago.  Maybe it will be good deer habitat again in about 50 years.

The biggest threat to hunting isn't the anti-hunters.  It's loss of habitat and hunting opportunities.

I'de go get a bag of winter rye and seed it in ASAP. It will become a deer magnet.

Often times the slick-cleared land is the landowner's fault, not the timber harvester.  The landowners want something that "looks good" so they have the timber crews remove all that beneficial slash that should be left in place to put nutrients back in the soil and provide habitat.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with clear cutting.  As a matter of fact it's often times beneficial to the land.  Hate it had to happen to you during the season, though.

that would be disturbing for sure.

Same thing happened to me last year.  Wasn't 75% of where I hunt though, just the entire hollow that I liked to hunt in.

Take advantage of the barricade the deer will travel along it like they do a fence line don't wait get a stand near the barricade.JMHO

A half-dozen years ago a farm I hunted from time to time was sold to developers and mostly cleared.

Back in 1982 or so I built a permanent stand (I know, but it was pretty common in those days) in a huge old, live tree. I can't remember the species. I put the stand up in the spring because it was near a very nasty, brushy marsh that deer came out of in the evenings to go through a 200-yard wide patch of woods into a corn field. I showed up an hour before light on opening day and tried to find the stand. I looked and looked and couldn't even find the tree. I was flabergasted. I sat down and waited for daylight. When it got light I saw the tree, it had blown over, stand and all-- bummer but no where near as bad as your deal.

David no I was there less than a week ago and talked with the owner. It was still prime deer habitat.

something like that happened to me yrs. ago. the landowner cleared off a 2acre point of cover with a bulldozer and unknowingly buried 2 treestands under 20 ft. of rocks,mud, and treestumps :-(

Can the "LandOwner" say "GLOBAL WARMING"???? Just Burns MY Arse when GREED gets in the way of NATURAL/NATURE!!!     You Dont FOOL with Mother Nature!!

First off, I am sorry about you losing your hunting spot and I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the above post is a little ridiculous.  Do you live in a house?  I'm guessing there is some wood in it.  How about the bow you shoot, if that's you in your avatar then it looks like it's made out of wood.  Do you drive a car that requires fossil fuels to run?  I'm pretty sure trees have been cut down for you to enjoy your life, why can't the landowner decide what to do with his land?  Plus it's not like new trees can't be planted or crops that will help feed the wildlife.  Might want to check into that whole global warming thing too.

Fresh cut down down here means good hunting! I do not like to see the woods get cut because they want the pines here and all hardwoods go with em so that does stink but it can and does make for some good hunting.

Attack it from the bright side and smoke some deer in there - they will make use of that cutover - Especially up there where they do not run dogs? deer should move even better.

As it grows up be sure to keep you some good paths through there.

J

QuoteOriginally posted by Shakes.602:
Can the "LandOwner" say  "GLOBAL WARMING"????   Just Burns MY Arse  when  GREED  gets in the way of  NATURAL/NATURE!!!    :mad:      :mad:      :mad:         You Dont  FOOL  with Mother Nature!!

Natural would be letting it burn once a generation.  

Young growth is better for 95% of wildlife and sucks up WAY more CO2 than old growth does.  I'm assuming the landowner plans to let the forest come back, of course.

If so, you will have a heck of a hunting spot in ten years or so.

To do all that in a week right before hunting season stinks.