Trees are going in!!!

The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

Plum, crab apple, willow, red-osier dogwood, cedar, juniper, russion olive, silver maple, false indigo, honey locust, black chokeberry, service berry (June Berry).

I cheated and had to go back to the spec sheet to get them all.:rolleyes:

Will be great to see them all grow up.
 
UGUIDE said:
The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

Plum, crab apple, willow, red-osier dogwood, cedar, juniper, russion olive, silver maple, false indigo, honey locust, black chokeberry, service berry (June Berry).

I cheated and had to go back to the spec sheet to get them all.:rolleyes:

Will be great to see them all grow up.
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Wow, That's alot of variety, good for you. Your place will be awsome for all Wildlife of your place.:thumbsup:
 
UGUIDE said:
The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

Plum, crab apple, willow, red-osier dogwood, cedar, juniper, russion olive, silver maple, false indigo, honey locust, black chokeberry, service berry (June Berry).

I cheated and had to go back to the spec sheet to get them all.:rolleyes:

Will be great to see them all grow up.
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Wow! Diddo what jmac said. You have a lot going on there. Looks like a bird paradise!

I have some trees to plant next weekend. Plum, mulberry, and persimmon. I enjoy planting for wildlife.:D
 
Nice variety of bird friendly shrubs there.:thumbsup:
Surprised you can still get Russian Olives? Plant em while you can.:cheers:
 
thank you for your habitat work!
 
Yeah Chris I noticed that big batch of rain going through SD. Nothing like a good rain on fresh planted trees.:thumbsup: Missed us but forecast sounds good for Sunday.
Russian Olives are illegal to plant in MT even on private land. :confused:
There are thousands of homesites with just a few rows of RO's to block the Northwind. An NO! RO's do not spread out over the countryside. Best Winter cover there is for birds where Winters are brutal.
Government passing silly laws.:o
 
Way to go! :thumbsup: A lot of people don't realize that good upland habitat is more than just switch grass.
 
UGUIDE said:
Soil District is our planting 21 acres of new CP-5a trees today.

All the trees in blue are on the map http://www.uguidesdpheasants.com/uploads/image/West_Farm_-_Future_CRP_Adds.pdf

With any luck from the Lord above they will get them in today and tomorrow and get a nice rain on them. Quite a chance in the forecast.

I will be out there Monday spraying 120 acres of CRP with 4 oz of plateau/acre.
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Chris I just got back from Platte and they got a general area rain in the .75 to 1 inch around SE SD on Thur night and were likely to get more today and tonight. It was mostly a night time rain that came steady with a couple of downpours. Should do wonders for your trees:)
 
SDJIM said:
Chris I just got back from Platte and they got a general area rain in the .75 to 1 inch around SE SD on Thur night and were likely to get more today and tonight. It was mostly a night time rain that came steady with a couple of downpours. Should do wonders for your trees:)
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Weather page showed 1.31 for Lake Andes. I don't think they were able to get all the trees in but should be good for the ground moisture when they get the rest in.

They will now let you plant grass in between tree rows and they advocate a blue grama and side oats grama as they are not big water consumers.

Timeliness of this moisture is a blessing for these trees. Be interesting to see if the sloughs come up at all or if the ground takes it all in. Looks like another big system swept thru today. Some hail reports in Nebraska.
 
FLDBRED said:
Way to go! :thumbsup: A lot of people don't realize that good upland habitat is more than just switch grass.
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YES! Now that's what I've been talking about!:thumbsup:
I have had plenty of REALLY great upland bird hunting and to this day I have NOT! Shot a single bird in Switch Grass. Nor have I hunted Switch Grass.

Switch Grass is pushed hard by Gov, gets to thick for game birds, Has to be BURNED off.:rolleyes:

Switch Grass is "native and natural" I've looked hard, all through MN, ND and MT. Can't find Wild Switch Grass. :( Where the heck is it "native and natural":eek:
 
UGUIDE said:
Soil District is our planting 21 acres of new CP-5a trees today.

All the trees in blue are on the map http://www.uguidesdpheasants.com/uploads/image/West_Farm_-_Future_CRP_Adds.pdf

With any luck from the Lord above they will get them in today and tomorrow and get a nice rain on them. Quite a chance in the forecast.

I will be out there Monday spraying 120 acres of CRP with 4 oz of plateau/acre.
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Just looked over your plan--man that should do it. It's going to be a little pheasant heaven right there in Charles Mix county.:cheers:
 
1GB said:
Makes sense to me. If you haven't hunted it, you certainly won't shoot any birds from it. :10sign:
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I'm just trying to get it across that, good pheasant hunting in pheasant country, it's tough to find Switch Grass.
I would sure like to hunt/study a section patch of good Switch sometime to check out advantages/disadvantages. :)
 
Uguide,

What forms are you planting your shrubs/trees? Are you planting wind breaks or have you designed any thickets.

Last year I planted several windbreaks but i also planted 6 thickets (blocks of 100 shrubs). I planted white spruce, American plum, NanKing Cherry, Golden Currant, Red Splendor Crabapple and Black Chokeberry.

This is there second spring so they have a ways to go but I think the thickets will work well with CRP for winter cover.
 
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