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In this 400th episode, Mark Drury discusses deer management strategies and habitat restoration techniques.

Habitat Podcast #400 - In today's episode of The Habitat Podcast, we are back in the studio with Mark Drury! We discuss: -Jared and Hutchy open episode 400 by thanking eight years of listeners since March 2018. -Mark explains why EHD has cut his southern Iowa deer herd by sixty to seventy percent. -Mark sold his big farm for scattered satellite farms as an insurance policy against EHD. -Mark is restoring 150 acres of Iowa pasture to native prairie using nothing but spring fire. -Mark mulches eastern red cedar to cut bedding pods and trails into overgrown glades. -Mark says the top fall plot mistake is planting early, and aims 45 days before first frost. -Mark blends triticale with radishes so a drought-stressed plot still shows green in October. -Mark has quit working dirt, mowing and burning down before no-tilling with PH Outdoors drills. -Mark's new 78-acre farm was 95 percent cover and took until January 9th to give up a buck. -Mark has reviewed over a million trail camera photos with another half million still to go. And So Much More! Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 1:04 Welcome to episode 400 — eight years of the Habitat Podcast 4:46 Mark Drury, back for the first time since 2019…

People in this episode

Host: Jared Van Hees

Guest: Mark Drury

Topics covered

• deer management
• habitat restoration
• food plots
• EHD
• farming techniques
• wildlife conservation

Keywords

• EHD
• Iowa deer herd
• native prairie
• food plot mistakes
• no-till farming
• trail camera photos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Drury Outdoors

Places: Iowa

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