Here are just a couple examples of why I don’t think that we as wildlife managers should take the same approach to “weeds” as what a farmer might. Do the deer call this a weed? There were several of these scattered around this area and they were all heavily browsed……. and its not just that they are browsed but look at the browse resistance properties that the plants have. Why eliminate this browse resistant broadleaf plant that the deer obviously like, only to replace it with another broadleaf plant like sunflowers that will likely not tolerate the same browsing pressure. Why not just grow them all together?
I agree. I've cut half of the 1-acre plot I plan to plant this year. Simply by doing that I have different "weeds" (honeysuckles) coming up as opposed to the other half of the field that hasn't been tended to in years.
