Blank Slate: Planning Exercise

About this episode

This episode guides listeners through a 7-step exercise to re-evaluate their farm for better deer management using OnX mapping.

Rethink your farm with us this week as we wipe the slate clean and re-evaluate how your farm works. This interactive podcast will guide you through starting cleanly, helping you understand how deer move on your property. This 7-step exercise will make areas on your farm stand out using OnX mapping. Future bedding thickets will be revealed, travel corridors and areas where deer are vulnerable to harvest will appear when you start over. New stand locations await you on the other side of the exercise. Mentally these are exercises that we perform whenever we walk a new farm. We see the farm with fresh eyes, no expectations, and with no previous observations of how deer use a farm—just the straight basics. Sometimes the path forward isn't straight; it may require you to take a few steps back, before moving forward.

Topics covered

• farm planning
• deer movement
• habitat management
• mapping
• hunting strategies
• interactive exercises

Keywords

• farm planning
• deer movement
• OnX mapping
• hunting
• bedding thickets
• travel corridors
• stand locations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OnX

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