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Maybe they are note suited for ND or are a new varity. A new one to me this year was Praire Red Plum. Has anyone out there planted any Praire Red Plums?

To our North is large block of rolling pasture land. We have a six acre valley on the NE corner of our land. It has a flowing spring and a large Buffalloberry patch on the east end. It had cattle useing it for ever. We fenced it five years ago. It was pretty barren from the cattle. After we...

When designing our tree plantings I had a few things to concider. Winter habitat was #1. We were goinng to be hunting these in the future,so they had to be some what hunter friendly. So I tried to keep the thorns to the minium. They also had to be drought resistant, because our area is a dry...

In 2005 we decided to improve our lands habitat for pheasants. Starting with tree plantings. They are really Hedge rows (no Deciduous trees). After a lot of research of where to put them, I studied about what kinds would be best for winter cover and food sources. There were a few that I plainly...

I will start new thread on trees and shrubs.

We have 160 acres in South central ND. All in CRP but two 6 acre food plots that we took out of CRP. Also have 6 tree plantings. So far have been avg. about 5 coons in the summer. We were there a couple of weeks ago and did not have time to set traps. Planted 250 trees, drug and sprayed tree...

Now is prime time to rid your land for Coons and Skunks.We live 3 hours from our land so leg hold traps are out for us. So I purchased a bunch of 220 conibear traps and bought plastic buckets that I fit the traps in the front. Place bait in back of bucket. Works great. For birds of prey, we...