Keeping Records of Property Work | Recording Your Wildlife and Land Management Activities
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When managing your land for wildlife, it is important to record what is happening on your property. There are many variations of wildlife and land management data collection, all of which will assist you in achieving your goals in the future. Many hunters are stubborn when it comes to keeping track of activities on the property. They focus on hunting and what needs to be done in order to improve their hunting, but they are missing out on a lot of information when they don’t document their wildlife and land management progress and success.
Typically, hunters keep two types of wildlife and land management records. The first are harvest records. This information can be kept in a small spiral binder so it can easily tucked it into a hunting pack and make observations after a hunt takes place or before dressing out a harvested animal. It’s important to always record the weight of a deer and the score of the antlers if it’s a buck. For turkeys, record the length of a gobbler’s beard, spurs, and the weight. The approximate time of the shot, and the location of the hunt are also documented. You can also expand the wildlife and land management data collected such as the moon phase, barometric pressure, and other weather conditions present at the time of the hunt. When dealing with turkeys, you can also record what calls worked best during the hunt, the roost sites, and even examine the recently consumed foods in a turkey’s crop, which tells what food sources have been on the menu recently.
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