Land Management

REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

Watch and read along as some of the world’s most knowledgeable and experienced hunting land managers show you proven strategies for turning your property into a hunting paradise. Get expert tips on everything from seasonal food plot placement and plant species selection to the state-of-the-art equipment that helps you to tend it.

Filter

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.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Mossy Oak® Properties adds Western Oregon brokerage

Mossy Oak Properties is pleased to announce that it has opened its second Oregon office with the opening of Mossy Oak Properties-Oregon Field & Stream in Roseburg.

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Land Leases, Scent Control and Hog Hunting in Texas

Most of Texas’s deer and turkey hunting land is tied up in leases. Many hunters haven’t considered the possibility of leasing land in Texas to hunt deer and turkeys, because they believe that all the leases already have been taken. However, Texas is a big state, and it has a lot of land and a lot of deer and turkeys on those lands.

Deer, Turkey, Land Management, Bow

Preseason Scouting Tactics with Bob Walker

When we talk about preseason scouting for deer, we assume that everyone knows what the term preseason scouting means. However, that’s not necessarily true. Unless you know what to look for, where to look and why to look, you'll get very little information from scouting on how to find and take older-age-class bucks when deer season arrives.

Deer, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, BioLogic

Check for Landscape Changes Before Deer Hunting

I have an old friend who lives near this WMA, and he told me that some type of tree bug had killed quite a few trees on this WMA, and those trees had fallen down. I want to check out those spots to make sure I can get to a place that I want to hunt, and I want to see how the deer are navigating through those downed-tree places.

Deer, Land Management, How-To

Planting Food Plots Out West for Blacktails, Mule Deer and Elk

Now we’re seeing hunters in Washington State and Oregon planting green fields for blacktailed deer. We also have some hunters in the West planting green fields for mule deer. Mule deer travel more than whitetails do, but the muleys still like something green to eat. The hunters who have planted BioLogic are reporting good success with feeding different types of deer. So, the use of green field plantings has proved over the years to be

Big Game, Land Management, BioLogic

Mossy Oak Properties Network Celebrates 15 Years

The Mossy Oak Properties network was established in 2002. What started as one office in Livingston, Alabama quickly became a network of brokers. The story of the company's start, a vision that took off, is a result of passion for the outdoors and the value of relationships. The story of Mossy Oak Properties is truly a story of the Mossy Oak Brand. It's more than a business, it's one big family.

Land Management, News, Mossy Oak Properties

Wildlife Management is More Than Providing Food and Cover for Deer

Wildlife management programs are long term undertakings. We've been increasing food and habitat for our wildlife and doing what we can to improve our property each year for more than 20 years. Our guiding light for improving our lands for wildlife has been being a part of the Mossy Oak GameKeepers Club.

Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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.

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

What To Feed Deer Throughout the Year

I think one very important approach to green field plantings is to remember that deer are browsers and eat a wide variety of different foods. I've seen deer walk out of a clover patch into the woods and start feeding on greenbrier. To solve that problem, we plant several different crops in each one of our green fields.

Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How To Create a Turkey Friendly Property

In the early spring, I go back into our green fields and plant wheat for the turkeys. There’s also clover in many of the BioLogic mixes we plant for deer. We leave some of our ground freshly plowed, because turkeys seem to like fresh earth. I’ll see them bugging in the crops we've planted for them and the mature birds dusting in that freshly turned earth where we don’t plant anything. We’re also conscious of

Turkey, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak

A History of Planting for Wildlife

I first learned the value of planting for wildlife many years ago. I was hunting in Cocke County, Tennessee, on one of my cousin’s farms. My cousin said, “Benny, go right out there to the corner of the tobacco patch. I've got oats planted there, and deer love oats.”

Deer, 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!

Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries

Pay Attention to Beaver Dams When Planting for Waterfowl

Beaver dams and beavers provide good places to hunt ducks but bad places to manage timber. Beavers destroy thousands of acres of bottomland hardwoods each year by creating dams and flooding that mature timber. However, Bobby Cole, the president of Mossy Oak BioLogic, reports that waterfowlers have learned that if they break-up those beaver dams in the late spring and let the water run out of them, then they can plant BioLogic Guide’s Choice and

Waterfowl, Land Management, BioLogic

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

Big Game, Conservation, Land Management, BioLogic