Here’s a good example of what I’m talking about…..Come Feb as soon as season ends…..I’ll hook up to my disk and begin to trample down some 3rd successional vegetation…Not disk it up now mind you.....just trample the vegetation to the ground during dormant season. I’ll only do a portion of the understory though because there’s other areas that are in their 2nd year…..I’ reset them next year….Its a little mosaic if different classes of early successional plant communities….on a pretty small a scale….like 3-4 acre units….most all of it is in prime cover except for a few acres of winter plots that open up. You could manage like this on as small or as large of a scale as you wanted....Larger scale operations need done with cows or buffalos instead of tractors ....and of course fire too when needed or more practical
Using the disk to just trample down and reset the vegetation down in Feb just makes it to where that area doesn’t really miss a beat. It’ll be a little open at the first of spring but then it’ll flush out and grow. We don’t mind a few open areas for bugging in the spring any who…..Then cover later on for poults......You can set succession back during the growing season in this same manner and have a little different impact. Done at the right time under the right conditions….Reseting the veg about mid summer this way can cause annuals just to reset and put off a new flush of young growth during the second half of summer…..Numerous units or paddocks constantly shuffling through different early stages of growth at different times.......Hell, here I go rambling again………
