• Blue Collar Deer Management with Jeff Foxworthy
  by Brian Sheppard
  Even celebrity food plots face challenges. If you overcome obstacles like these, you
  might be committed to QDM.
  
  
• Chicory: A Powerful Perennial
  by Rans Thomas
  Drought-tolerant, nutritious, and works well with legumes. What's not to like about chicory?
  
  
• Diversify Your Whitetail Woods -- Tree Plantings for Deer
  by John T. Buck
  
  
  
• Drought Proof Food Plots
  by Ryan Foster
  Apply these farming techniques to make your food plots drought proof.
  
  
• Get Fired Up for Quality Deer Habitat
  by David Ledford
  One of the best, yet least used, tools one can use to improve habitat for white–tailed deer is fire. Man has used fire for centuries to clear land, drive game, and improve habitat for wildlife. Naturally occurring fires have blackened the landscape
  
  
• Innovative Wildlife Opening Makes Young Pine Stand a Hunting Haven
  by Mark Thomas and Bobby Watkins
  
  
  
• Intensively Managed Pine Plantations — Barren Wastelands or Potential Deer Habitat?
  by Scott Edwards, Steve Demarais, and Andy Ezell
  If you are like many deer hunters in the Southeast, your primary hunting area is leased from forest products companies or timber investment management organizations (TIMOs). Most of the time, your hands are tied when it comes to improving habitat quality.
  
  
• Lime–An Essential Ingredient for Successful Food Plots
  by Grant R. Woods, Ph.D.
  Most sportsmen realize that fertilizer is an important component in establishing or maintaining successful food plots. However, rarely do I hear of sportsmen applying lime or discussing the soil's pH in reference to food plots. Actually, lime is often a m
  
  
• Managing Native Vegetation for White–tailed Deer
  by John Johnson
  For many years hunters and outdoor enthusiasts have planted food plots to improve the nutrition available to their deer herd and increase their chances of harvesting a quality buck. While this is a good practice, food plots typically represent only 1?
  
  
• Mineral Supplementation—Necessity or Never Mind?
  by Brad Howard and Brian Murphy
  What can we do to help the deer on our property? How can we help our bucks grow bigger antlers? Are they missing something in their diet? These are just a few of the questions commonly asked by hunters. The answers to some of these questions are simple, b
  
  
• Mini Plots
  by Ed Spinazzola
  No Tractor? No Problem. QDMA National Board of Directors Member and Mid-Michigan Branch President Ed Spinazzola shares his ineresting techniques for planting high-quality food plots with just a few inexpensive hand tools.
  
  
• Planning Habitat for Whitetail Nutrition
  by Phil Anderson
  Designing great habitat starts with understanding the whitetail's stomach.
  
  
• Planting Warm Season Forages for White-tailed Deer
  by Dean Stewart
  Research conducted in Mississippi has shown that as little as 1 percent of an area planted to both cool- and warm-season forages can increase deer observations, deer density, deer condition, and consequently, hunter success and satisfaction. It is commonl
  
  
• Poor-Quality Habitat, High Quality Bucks
  by Dave Edwards
  Wildlife Biologist Dave Edwards gives a great case history of a very poor quality habitat property in Florida that has been successful in producing high quality bucks through sound manangement.
  
  
• Soil Moisture—The Most Important Ingredient for Successful Food Plots
  by Dr. Grant R. Woods and Bryan Kinkel
  Being responsible for establishing food plots throughout the whitetail’s range, we have been frustrated by the weather during the summer and fall of 2000. Rainfall and temperatures have varied greatly across the eastern U.S. Drought conditions conti
  
  
• Soil Test Science
  by Robert N. Smith
  Perhaps the most important part of creating a successful, nutritious food plot for your deer is a simple as digging in the dirt with a small trowel.
  
  
• Spinner's Food Plot Secrets
  by Ed Spinazzola
  Ed Spinazzola has spent years perfecting low-maintenance food plots on his Michigan farm. Here are three of his favorite food-plot techniques that are sure to bring results this fall.
  
  
• Summer Wildlife Management Checklist
  by Kent Kammermeyer
  A calendar of events for the wildlife manager during the summer months.
  
  
• The Big Picture - A Landowner's Guide to Sound Land Management
  by Donnie & Amanda Wood
  Part One of a Four Part Series on Land Management
  
  
• Whitetail Science – Minerals
  by Brian Murphy
  Certified Wildlife Biologist and QDMA Executive Director Brian Murphy discusses the latest research on mineral supplementation for whitetails. This column originally appeared in "Bowhunting World" magazine.
  
  
  
• Whitetail Science – Rut
  by Brian Murphy
  Certified Wildlife Biologist and QDMA Executive Director Brian Murphy discusses the latest research on rutting activity, and its impact on bowhunters. This column originally appeared in "Bowhunting World" magazine.
  
  
• Whitetail Science – Sheds
  by Brian Murphy
  Certified Wildlife Biologist and QDMA Executive Director Brian Murphy looks at shed hunting, and the information hunters can learn from the shed antlers they find. This column originally appeared in "Bowhunting World" magazine.
  
  
  
• Winning the Weed Wars in Your Food Plots
  by Kent Kammermeyer
  Well, you thought you did everything right. Let’s see, got that soil test, applied recommended lime and fertilizer, prepared a smooth seedbed, inoculated your legumes, carefully broadcast your seed, covered lightly, and prayed for rain.
  
  

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