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re: Louisiana Woodcock: A Heritage Forgotten
Posted on 1/28/19 at 1:51 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 1/28/19 at 1:51 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Where was that video shot? That place looks like the way things used to be in St. Tammany Parish with the pine savannas.
Kisatchie National Forest in SW Louisiana. The national forest service is heavily burning and converting shortleaf and slash pine to longleaf pine savannas. It is incredible. This unit is called the Vernon unit and about 200k acres. Not all of it looks like this but what does, looks incredible.
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Posted on 1/28/19 at 2:29 pm to wickowick
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The national forest service is heavily burning and converting shortleaf and slash pine to longleaf pine savannas. It is incredible. This unit is called the Vernon unit and about 200k acres. Not all of it looks like this but what does, looks incredible.
Thanks. I have pictures of family property along LA 1077 that used to look just like this when I was a kid (and we had free-range cattle and prescribed burning to keep down the brush).
Posted on 1/28/19 at 2:37 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
This is a pic from November
Posted on 1/28/19 at 2:47 pm to wickowick
Absolutely beautiful! That pic reminds me of me wandering the woods with my old crack-barrel 20 gauge and a bag full of shells.
Posted on 1/28/19 at 3:34 pm to wickowick
It’s a beautiful place and one of the more unspoiled public areas to hunt in. It’s big and remote enough where a lot of folks won’t mess with the piney woods for anything other than turkeys.
I’m not a biologist but I spent a lot of time in that place before moving to Oklahoma. Pretty much exclusively hunted it the last two years before I moved for woodcock and the occasional other upland bird that resides there. Even though a lot of work is being done, it seems to me like there just isn’t enough bare ground for the quail to make much of a living there. In the areas that the tree density is low, the canopy is sparse enough even just a year after a burn, the bluestem will have almost carpeted the soil.
There are some areas where the burn rotation keeps the hardwoods knocked back and the canopy is not totally open and can make for some fruitful hunting.
I’m not a biologist but I spent a lot of time in that place before moving to Oklahoma. Pretty much exclusively hunted it the last two years before I moved for woodcock and the occasional other upland bird that resides there. Even though a lot of work is being done, it seems to me like there just isn’t enough bare ground for the quail to make much of a living there. In the areas that the tree density is low, the canopy is sparse enough even just a year after a burn, the bluestem will have almost carpeted the soil.
There are some areas where the burn rotation keeps the hardwoods knocked back and the canopy is not totally open and can make for some fruitful hunting.
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