| Much national attention has been focused
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| | as beech and oak trees provide excellent
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| on the health and future welfare of
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| | nest sites. Plants, vines, bushes, and
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| wildlife animals and birds by wildlife
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| | shrubs offer natural feeding plots for
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| management conservationists and hunters
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| | birds and wildlife that browse and eat
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| who want to preserve a valuable American
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| | the foliage, bark, shoots, new buds,
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| resource: the population of wild animals
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| | leaves, twigs, fruit, grapes, seed,
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| and wild game. Increased planting of
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| | acorns, flowers, and berries.
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| inedible crops like cotton and tobacco
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| | Hunting plantation wildlife food managers
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| has reduced wildlife food supplies. Urban
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| | plant and grow a combination of species
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| expansion has rapidly reduced forests
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| | to supply food plots for wildlife all
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| where wildlife food once grew, and very
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| | year rather than only during the hunting
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| efficient grain harvesting has left only
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| | season. Wildlife food plots are planted
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| a little corn or wheat in fields for
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| | and grown in strips of annual grains such
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| wildlife food browsing.
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| | as corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa,
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| Until recent years, the feeding of wild
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| | sunflowers, clover sorghum, buckwheat,
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| game animals and wildlife game birds was
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| | millet, and annual rye.
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| done by either letting the animals feed
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| | Corn seed is planted in food plots to
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| on the native plants and flora or by
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| | attract deer, turkey, squirrel, raccoon,
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| supplementing the food supply by planting
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| | pheasant, and quail. Soybeans are game
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| strips of land with food plots of various
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| | food for turkey, deer, pheasant, and
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| annual grains each year. Some wildlife
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| | quail. Wheat will attract Canada geese,
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| management academics suggested planting
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| | doves, and turkey. Alfalfa attracts only
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| small fruit trees, berry plants, grape
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| | deer; and sorghum plants offer limited
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| vines, and perennials to avoid the
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| | shelter and food for deer, pheasant,
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| expensive problem of replanting annuals
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| | quail, and duck. Sunflower seed are good
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| every year. These suggestions worked
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| | food plots for deer, dove, goldfinch, and
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| sometimes except for the fact that
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| | songbirds. Clover attracts only deer.
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| planting small oak trees often required
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| | Buckwheat grain is good game food for
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| 10 years or more of growing to produce
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| | duck, turkey, waterfowl, pheasant, quail,
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| the first food supply of acorns. Many
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| | and deer. Millet is an attractive food
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| small trees died the first year, because
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| | plot grain for waterfowl and dove. Annual
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| of the small root systems, and the stress
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| | rye is an excellent food plot grain for
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| of transplanting into a hostile neglected
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| | deer, Canada geese, turkey, dove, and
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| environment.
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| | rabbit. These wildlife food plots are
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| Planting large fruiting size trees for
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| | best established near pine forests, pond
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| fast wildlife food sources has become
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| | edges, or near river bottom land where
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| very popular, because of the high rate of
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| | hardwood shade trees such as oak and
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| livability and first year fruit
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| | beech nut trees grow.
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| production, such as with large mulberry
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| | These annual grain food plots are
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| trees, Japanese persimmon trees, and
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| | considered short term food sources for
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| blueberry plants. Planting big fruit
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| | game birds, because the grain does not
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| trees of bearing size appears to be an
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| | return to grow next year, and the process
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| enthusiastic way to get wildlife food
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| | can be expensive and challenging to
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| faster and less expensively in the long
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| | wildlife management farms and
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| run.
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| | plantations. Some management for food
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| The United States government passed a
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| | plot growers prefer to plant seed of
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| law, the Pittman-Robertson Act in 1937,
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| | perennials, but often these efforts are
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| to protect wildlife resources that
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| | complicated and only last a few years.
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| collects an excise tax of 11% of the cost
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| | Other management for establishing food
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| to buy any firearms, guns, or ammunition.
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| | plots prefer to plant small immature
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| This 11% excise tax is sent to the
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| | trees of fruit trees, grape vines, shrubs
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| Department of Natural Resources of each
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| | and oak (acorn) trees of various sizes,
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| State to protect the wildlife habitat and
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| | but often fruiting is delayed for years
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| food plots. Over two billion dollars of
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| | unless larger mature trees are planted.
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| funding to preserve wildlife habitat has
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| | Many managers of food plots plant tiny
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| financed wildlife welfare since 1937.
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| | oak trees or shrubs, but most oak trees
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| Animals and birds can only live if their
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| | require ten or more years to produce an
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| energy levels are met to grow, to escape
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| | acorn, even though more expensive, larger
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| predators, to reproduce, to survive long
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| | nursery grown trees produce fruit and
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| migrations, or to survive severe winter
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| | acorns fast. Large crabapple, quince,
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| temperatures. Wildlife animals and birds
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| | mulberry, persimmon trees or blueberry
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| must have shelter to protect them from
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| | bushes and muscadine grapevines will
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| bad weather or to hide them from
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| | produce food for wild game animals and
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| predators. Dense foliage and vegetation
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| | game birds after the first year, but
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| are the most common shelter retreats, but
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| | small trees have small roots and tend to
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| some animals burrow in holes in trees,
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| | require many years for wildlife feeding
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| logs, and in the ground or in log or rock
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| | purposes, and most small trees die the
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| piles.
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| | first year.
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| Serious competition to wildlife for food
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| | Berry bushes such as blueberry,
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| and habitat can only lead to overcrowding
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| | blackberry and raspberry produce food
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| that weakens wildlife resistance to
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| | early, and the thorny blackberry and
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| disease and wild predators. Wildlife
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| | raspberry bushes offer shelter and
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| cannot survive unless sufficient water,
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| | protection to game birds such as quail
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| food, shelter, and space is available.
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| | and pheasant. Chicasaw plum trees are a
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| Migratory animals move from one place to
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| | native plant to America and offer food
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| another in search of food, better
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| | quickly for wildlife and birds in the
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| climate, or other environmental factors.
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| | Spring, along with mulberry tree berries
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| Winter food shortage is the most
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| | that ripen during turkey season. Late
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| important limiting factor for many
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| | fall production of wildlife food is very
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| wildlife species. Wildlife food plots of
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| | desirable when most hunting seasons
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| nut trees and fruit trees are termed,
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| | begin. Nut trees such as hickory, walnut
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| "hard mast." The fruit trees include
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| | and pecan attract squirrels and game
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| apple, persimmon, crabapple, pear, plum,
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| | birds. Chinquapin nuts attract animals
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| and quince; nut trees include pecan,
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| | and game birds.
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| hickory, chinquapin, walnut, oak, and
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| | Wild game such as deer and bear can't
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| beech. Wildlife browsing for food is
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| | resist the aroma of ripening fruit in the
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| termed "soft mast," include fruit and
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| | fall, such as persimmon, apple,
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| berry food from dogwood, viburnum,
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| | crabapple, pear and quince. Wildlife
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| mulberry trees, elderberry, blueberry
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| | species have a sense of smell much more
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| plants, muscadine and scuppernong grape
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| | intense than humans, and some unethical
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| vines, raspberry bushes, and blackberry
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| | hunters use picked apple or other fruit
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| bushes. To establish deer food plots,
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| | to spread the fruit scent on the ground
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| wildlife shrubs, trees, and vines are
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| | near a deer stand, but this is illegal,
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| best planted along fence lines on the
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| | just like baiting a dove field with
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| dense edge of woods, bushy pond edges, or
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| | cracked corn. It is advisable to plant
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| near plots of thick grass.
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| | and grow trees for this purpose, because
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| Burning off pine forests helps to provide
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| | it will attract game and wildlife for
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| high-quality forage and cover protection
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| | legal hunting or viewing. Try planting
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| for deer herd management. Native plants
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| | mature trees, vines and bushes for
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| will regrow to establish natural food
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| | wildlife feeding that requires no expense
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| plots for wildlife nourishment and
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| | of yearly replanting or long waiting to
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| health. Pine trees, hardwood trees such
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| | produce a wildlife food source.
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