Sparta Mountain WMA

[Rusty]

My students and I planted chestnuts in one of the habitat projects on Sparta Mountain WMA this past weekend.

 

 

 

[BowTechExperience]

Love that part of NJ.. It feels like a different state..

[Bucksnbows]

Nice job!  I had planned to join you, but our Catskills guide had his trip blown out from the huge rains and he sent his clients back to NJ to fish with me instead.  Wish I could have helped. 

[Rusty]

Love that part of NJ.. It feels like a different state..

 

It's too flat down by you.  

[Bucksnbows]

Rusty, what will we do with all these flatlanders?  

 

When you take game off Sparta Mountain, you know you've been hunting

[BHC]

great job by you and the kids

[Rusty]

Rusty, what will we do with all these flatlanders?  

 

When you take game off Sparta Mountain, you know you've been hunting

 

The air is too thin for them up here.      

[BowTechExperience]

It's too flat down by you.  

 

 

lol... you are correct, down here when you shoot a deer, you have to actually drag them out. When I used to hunt up there near the Walpack Inn,  I was able to get them to a ridge and slide them down the mountain to a  road.. Heck man, winter bow and snow was awesome. Push them off a ridge and meet it on the road..lol

[LittleM]

Nice.  Did you see any golden-wings?

[Haskell_Hunter]

You need to plant some American Hazelnuts up there now.  I have five on my tiny property and they attract wildlife like moths to a flame.  Had a spike munching the leaves on one today.

 

They're not forest trees but more like giant shrubs that work well as a border or something to plant along a tree line.  They're hardy as heck and excellent cover for birds.

 

http://shop.arborday.org/product.aspx?zpid=847

 

If you're interested, I'll donate a few to the cause.  Have to wait until fall because the shipping dates have passed.

[Rusty]

Nice.  Did you see any golden-wings?

 

We didn't have time that day but they do nest along the power lines close to where we were.

[Rusty]

You need to plant some American Hazelnuts up there now.  I have five on my tiny property and they attract wildlife like moths to a flame.  Had a spike munching the leaves on one today.

 

They're not forest trees but more like giant shrubs that work well as a border or something to plant along a tree line.  They're hardy as heck and excellent cover for birds.

 

http://shop.arborday.org/product.aspx?zpid=847

 

If you're interested, I'll donate a few to the cause.  Have to wait until fall because the shipping dates have passed.

 

Nice offer, we may take you up on it.  Let me look in to it.  

[Bucksnbows]

Nice.  Did you see any golden-wings?

 

I'm not sure if our golden wing gal has come out yet for her annual singing survey.  Where Rusty and his students planted is still considered too young for that species.  I recently learned that she found a blue winged warbler on my (then) 5 year old clear cut last spring and she'll be back this season to see if it still has the blue or if a golden winged has moved in.  We have an historic nesting pair last seen in 2007 about 150 feet from my oldest clear cut under the adjacent power lines, so they use this habitat.  We have our fingers crossed!