Managing Your Land for Wildlife a Little at a Time Maybe you don’t have the money to spend on having the property cleared, plowed, planted for numerous food plots. However, that’s not what GameKeepers is suggesting. Read More Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
GameKeepers are Wildlife Managers, Not Just Hunters Gamekeeping is not just for hunters, but for those who enjoy wildlife conservation and land management. It’s a way of life for people who just enjoy seeing wildlife, especially close to home. I don’t believe hunting and wildlife land management are opposite of each other. I really believe and know, at least in my house, they're the same philosophy. Read More Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
Small Food Plots Can Still Increase Wildlife More and more hunters are beginning to learn that small properties - often as small as 5-10 acres or as much as 500 acres - can be great places to hunt, to own and to increase the wildlife living on that property. Read More Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, BioLogic
Tips For Applying Grass Specific Herbicides As winter winds down, some areas across the nation may have already started to see a few warm season weeds emerging. This is a sign that it may be time to start spraying your plots. This includes spraying perennial fields containing clovers, alfalfas, chicory and the like for grasses, as well as using non-selective herbicides for preparing fields for warm season annuals. Herbicide applications on weeds are much more effective when the target weeds are Read More Conservation, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Increasing Vegetation Through Prescribed Burns We’ve had huge success with using fire to improve our game lands. We have one game land just outside of Philipsburg that we started burning sections on that property about 3-4 years ago. This year, one of our local hunters took a buck off that land that’s main beams were 24 inches wide and was an absolute monster buck to come off of public lands. That game land consists of about 9,000 acres. We usually Read More Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
Managing Small Acreage for Wildlife Steve Frye of Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania, has been involved in the Mossy Oak GameKeepers program for two years and owns 17 acres. Frye hunts public lands and works for the Pennsylvania Game Commission where he’s implemented GameKeepers practices on public lands. Frye is part of the food and cover crew for Centre County, Pennsylvania. Read More Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, BioLogic
