Advantages of Supplemental Feed for Deer Read our feed for deer blog post at Mossy Oak and know why providing a year-round source of supplemental nutrition for your whitetail herd is very important! Read More Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
When Temperatures Drop, Keep Deer on Your Land with a Water Source Also in Minnesota where we live, during deer season, most of the streams and creeks freeze. Deer will eat snow to get water, but they prefer to drink water. I’ve come to believe that providing a good source of open water may be as critical for drawing and keeping deer on our land as planting food plots for them. Read More Deer, Conservation, Land Management
The Best Time To Prune Trees If maintained properly, it’s amazing the tonnage a few fruit trees or several mature oaks can provide. Read More Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries
Mossy Oak's Top 10 Articles of 2017 Here are ten of our most popular articles on MossyOak.com for 2017. Deer hunting, food plots, land management, new pattern and a chili recipe. Read More Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Break-Up Eclipse, How-To, News, Wild Game Recipes, Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, Nativ Nurseries
What Makes A Good Wintering Area for Deer? Because of continuing to add to the whitetail appeal of the property, it’s only gotten better. In fact, now we actually have numbers continually increase into the winter months. We have more deer through the winter than at any other time of the year. The reasons are simple and they’ll always be the same – food, water, cover and security. Read More Deer, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties
Tree Plots Produce Mast and Reduce Conversion Planting a hardwood tree plot makes a commitment toward a long-term annual mast crop, and creates some peace of mind that game animals seeking hardwood shelter won’t pass over your habitat. Read More Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries
Proper Steps for Supplemental Winter Feeding Start your feeding program early in the winter, even better yet, during the fall, when deer are still healthy. Waiting until they are starving before providing supplemental feed can hasten starvation through stress related to sudden diet change. Read More Deer, Conservation, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Selected as Official Camo Pattern of QDMA The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) has selected Mossy Oak Break-Up Country as its official camouflage pattern. Effective immediately, QDMA and Mossy Oak will synergize their efforts to defend the attacks that come against the health of the nation’s white-tailed deer herd and the overall right to pursue them. Furthermore, they will work together to increase hunter recruitment and retention. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News, Mossy Oak
Hunters Provide Millions of Meals Most hunters know that QDMA is among the nation’s premier conservation organizations, working every day to improve America’s deer hunting. What these same hunters might not realize, though, is that QDMA and its members have provided millions of nutritious meals to those Americans most in need. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, News
Hinge Cutting Trees Creates More Food and Habitat for Deer We practice hinge cutting, the process of cutting trees with no economic value and letting the tops of those trees fall over, on quite a few of the farms where we plant green fields. Hinge cutting makes open areas thicker and creates feeding, bedding and cover for deer. Read More Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
4 Reasons To Start Planting Trees Tree planting has played an important role in improving wildlife habitat for ages. As GameKeepers, we know how effective “tree plots” and reforestation can be for attracting wildlife to a property, but let’s take a look at some of the other great reasons to go out and plant some trees! Read More Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries
EHD in Deer What can an outbreak of EHD (epizootic hemorrhagic disease) do to the whitetail population in Ohio if a wide scale infection occurs? Are we on the verge of a widespread deer kill or will Mother Nature control the spread through weather and killing frost? What can hunters do? How is this viral infection caused? Read More Deer, Conservation
Can Mule Deer Be Managed Effectively? A growing number of mule deer hunters are catching on to the fact that they can dramatically improve the quality of their herd and hunting opportunities by employing the same tried and true management methods of the QDMA. Just like whitetails, mule deer need food, water, cover and a spot where they are left alone. In recent years, I’ve been paying close attention to a ranch in Wyoming and how they have progressed. What they Read More Big Game, Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic
Deer Hunting on Reclaimed Strip Mining Land In many areas of the country, the federal government has required the strip mining companies to reclaim strip mined land with grasses and pine trees. Most of us think of a strip mine as being nothing but dirt and rocks. But if these strip mines are reclaimed and planted with grasses and pine trees, they often make ideal habitat for whitetails. Read More Deer, Conservation, Mossy Oak, Firearm
Mossy Oak Backs NWTF’s JAKES Youth Hunting Program Mossy Oak is the official camo of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and part of that partnership is dedicated to supporting the JAKES program. JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) informs, educates and involves youth in wildlife conservation and the wise stewardship of our natural resources. Read More Conservation, Mossy Oak Obsession, News, Mossy Oak