Late Summer Land Management
For many people, late summer is just a necessary evil that we must endure. The upside is it means fall is just around the corner. However, just because most of us don’t enjoy the dog...
How to Make Money and Improve the Habitat – Cattle Farming
Let’s break the mold and get back to natural systems. Large herbivores grazed across the landscapes and the wildlife thrived, but over time we’ve forgotten how to use grazing animals to still benefit the landscape....
Step by Step Fall Food Plot Planting Guide
With hunting season fast approaching we are discussing fall food plot planting techniques on this week’s podcast. First and foremost successful food plots must germinate. We take time this week to discuss what factors influence...
The Foundational Element of Landscape Architecture
On this week’s Land and Legacy podcast, Frank Loncarich and Matt Dye sit down to discuss one of the largest factors determining what habitat practices are applicable to your property. Number one is, of...
How We Are Implementing Wildlife Cooperatives
On this week’s podcast, you will hear from the crew at Land & Legacy and how we plan to use and continue using the wildlife cooperative approach to managing wildlife and our landscape. Wildlife...
Introducing the National Wildlife Cooperative
Introducing the National Wildlife Cooperative this week. This organization is dedicated to the sportsmen, landowners, conservation, and wildlife! Wildlife cooperatives have sprung up across this nation over the course of many years. These collaborations...
The Incredible Value of Native Food for Bobwhites
A recent quail hunt in Kansas served to reiterate just how important diversity of natural food sources is to bobwhite quail. Several of the birds we harvested were stuffed full of native and naturalized weed...
Habitat Management for Whitetails – Edge Feathering
Habitat management is the foundation of the entire farm! If you’re working to improve your local herd and hunting, it should all be centered around improving the habitat. When you build from the foundation of...
Late Summer/Early Fall Prescribed Burning
Hot dry summers present an opportunity to conduct some growing season burns in August and September. There are a myriad of reasons to utilize prescribed fire in late summer or early fall. Like any management...
Finding the Good in Hot, Dry Weather
If you spend time around farmers or others who commonly work the land, you will often hear them discuss the fears of drought weather. These fears are warranted based on their goals and objectives...