Having grown up in the hills and fields of Southern Vermont, Vaughn Perkins has always had a fondness for the outdoors and its animals. This book offers an in depth look into the emerging field of micro-plotting. It provides different outlooks for a variety of wildlife enthusiasts, from deer lovers to bird watchers.
Whitetail Gardening describes how small property owner''s can enhance their property for wildlife. With food plots becoming more popular, and seed blend varieties becoming more complex, this book offers simple, but effective techniques to help enhance any piece of property for nearly all types of wildlife.
VAUGHN PERKINS, earned his Bachelor''''s Degree in Wildlife & Fisheries Biology at the University of Vermont in 1996. He lives with his wife and three kids in Southern Vermont.
Whitetail bucks are widely know as elusive and mysterious creatures of habit. There one minute, gone the next. Their range may span several miles during the fall rut, or they may inhabit only 100 square yards for weeks on end during the critical antler growing months. Knowing seasonal travel routes and understanding growing bucks’ nutritional needs is the first step to creating a micro-habitat for bucks on your property. Second, is to create specialized food plots around those travel routes and to provide adequate cover to fill every buck’s need for security. Once you have filled a buck’s needs with the best food and cover available, he’ll be one step closer to calling your property home.
The Buck’s Bedroom Plan is a blueprint to follow to create the perfect buck hangout during daylight hours. Here’s the plan in a nutshell: To design a secure area that mature bucks will use on a routine basis. You’ll need to consider these important factors in designing your buck’s bedroom:
- seasonal wind directions;
- already-existing cover/vegetation;
- topography: ie. ridges, valleys, saddles, rivers/streams;
- potential stand locations; and
- entrance and exit routes for the deer and yourself.
First, because this plan was designed specifically for hunters, plots are arranged according to wind direction around a specific stand location, and to known travel routes. A perfect scenario leaves or creates adequate cover between plots so bucks can travel freely on those travel routes during daylight hours - within your field of view (preferably within range). Second, your food plots should be designed to work with what you currently have on your property. Many people have mixed hardwood or softwood stands, others have field edges and power lines, or maybe even leftover log roads. Plots do not have to be huge, but they must emphasize variety; bucks are very selective foragers and at times are very finicky.