I'm going to remove the maple and sweetgum in the pics but do y'all think I should take out the red oak and water oak too? I will be leaving the two white oaks for sure. [img:center]http://[/img] [img:center]http://[/img]

I have some red oaks and white oaks in a couple plots. Due to liming, fertilizing and being released from the forest canopy, they rain acorns. Plus i think it provides additonal stands for bowhunting, as well as camera placements. It also allows for an ambush site turkey hunting, if you let the weeds grow up around the tree's. It helps provide shade for clover, as well.

Oh the white oaks have been loaded every year that's for sure.

I wouldnt take the red or water oak out. Be great when they produce and by the pictures looks like a good place for a buck to make a scrape.

Surprisingly I never find many scrapes at the house. Maybe 5 in the 9 years I've owned it they rub a lot but just don't scrape. It's kind of weird.

You could always make a nibbling branch scrape site. Fasten a tree limb horizontally to a tree and have the top about waist high. They'll start to use it and scrape under it.

I'd leave the maple tree too, and hinge cut the branches in the winter.

Yea no it's gone. It's interfering with my summer plots big time.

Definetely leave the red oak and water oak you will be getting ferilize to them every year with planting .