Wildlife Investments

Managing a wildlife focused property is hard work year-round and it is easy to fall behind on your to do list. Often the separation between average properties and exceptional ones is simply foresight, planning, and a little bit of extra effort to get the important habitat work done at the right time. Today we're discussing this topic around deer management, specifically how certain habitat management practices are time sensitive and this timing can mean the difference between frustration and progress.
You can learn more about actively managing native deer forages here:  https://extension.msstate.edu/publications/guide-common-native-deer-forages-mississippi-and-the-southeast

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A good food plot system feeds deer every month of the year. On this podcast Bronson, Bonner, and Moriah discuss the plantings and management strategies they use in food plot complexes to provide year round nutrition.
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Do big bucks always have big antlered offspring? How much of a buck's antler size is affected by his sire? Are spikes genetically inferior? We're diving deep into antler heritability, buck breeding values, and antler genetics in this third and final buck culling podcast. Dr. Randy DeYoung of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville is joining us and sharing lot's of information about buck antler genetics and how many variables around genetics affect culling efficacy.
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We're picking up where our last episode left off on the topic of deer culling for genetic improvement. Donnie Draeger is joining us to discuss the iconic Comanche Ranch high-fence culling study that went to even greater extremes to test whether deer herd population genetics can be improved. He and Bronson discuss the logistics of conducting a study of this scale, the results, and what contributed to the challenges they face in improving genetic quality of bucks.

You can read more on the the actual study here:  https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/wmon.70013
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Long debated in deer hunting stories, the subject of wild deer culling for genetic improvement is a debate that never dies, but there is a lot of sound research that has examined this question. This is the first of a three part series reviewing the results of genetic culling research. On this episode we're joined by Dr. Mickey Hellickson to discuss foundational deer culling research that he helped lead on the famous King Ranch looking at genetic culling via hunting in a free-range setting.
 The full study can be found below
https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/wmon.70013
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