This time of year, many habitat managers have food plots on the brain. But, it's also the time of year that long-term habitat improvements need to be implemented, such as tree planting and establishment of Native Warm Season Grasses (NWSG). Just last night, I receieved an email from a website visitor - Bill Burk - who had some questions about a NWSG project he's planning, and I asked if I could respond to him in the DLM blog, so others might be able to benefit from the info

About a year and half ago, I was working my tail off - showing farms, planting fall food plots for a couple of land sales clients, and installing fire breaks on our home farm. A good friend of mine - Casey Shoopman, said he'd like to come visit and shoot some video while we were working. It was the first time he'd been to my farm, so I gave him the tour and we talked about the projects we'd been doing. We got a lot done in a couple days, and that video became a whole new a