Burns and Timber Cut Age

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Hello everyone. I have been doing some e scouting and there is a lot of data about burns and timber cuts. My question is, how does the age of a burn or timber cut affect the potential for food? Is there a possibility of a burn or cut being too old or too young?


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Timber cuts are too young if the activity has pushed the animals out, so that summer. Otherwise, they are good from the first year to the 100th. After about 8-10, though, they can get very thick with competing pines and are harder to hunt, but still worthwhile. I hunt cuts that are from a couple to 50+ years old.

Burns are much the same and have no limits. They grow back differently depending on how hot the fire was. Some take years to get more than a few shrubs, others sprout grass and saplings the following year or even later that year. Even the ones that are barren in the middle have a rim of food around them where the canopy was opened up and the heat didn't kill the seeds.

Jeremy
 
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