Making Sure You Have All the Important Arrangements in Place.

1. Making Sure You Have All the Important Arrangements in Place Few ideas will ever be successfully put into practice without a proper plan behind them. A successful office, organisation or society will only show results when there is a course of action or well-prepared set of plans in place. This is true for most areas of life. Think, for example, of wildlife and its related activities such as hunting. If you do not have a good management plan in place, chances are that you may have to hunt sub- standard deer and other buck, for instance. Land has to be managed well to ensure that animals have access to enough water and forage, and management has to ensure that hunting practices support healthy practice. Therefore habitat management, as one of the important issues, should always be considered, in addition to issues such as culling and normal hunting. To make sure you implement Quality Deer Management (QDM) on your property, you need to understand the basics – and often the specifics – of how various elements influence many others. In short one could say a proper plan to implement the best, most successful management plan to look after and produce quality deer will be based upon certain important principles. These include, among some, a well-thought out philosophy that ensures the collaboration and cooperation of different role players such as landowners, hunters, managers and support staff on the land that needs to be managed. These individuals and groups all have the same goal in mind: to produce great deer for the hunt in their specific habitat. This means that no management plan will be successful if one or more of the mentioned role players or issues do not receive the necessary attention. There can be little doubt that without a proper Quality Deer Management plan future generations may not have access to the best, most healthy buck to hunt. To ensure that in years to come hunters have access to great hunting opportunities and a great harvest, it is essential to preserve, to protect and to make sure there are opportunities to develop good hunting habits and opportunities.

2. It is, therefore, important to heed the principles of great organizations such as the Quality Deer Management Association in the US that believes in certain principles “...to ensure the future of white-tailed deer, wildlife habitat and our hunting heritage.” When a proper plan is put in place on your property or the property that you lease from an owner to enjoy hunting, chances are that quality buck will be available. Of course this also applies to other animals that are raised for the hunt. The important issue will always be to find the balance and to keep the equilibrium to ensure that the habitat can carry the most appropriate numbers of deer, and that the deer has proper access to the best forage and water. Different role players such as landowners, hunters and interested members of the public should all cooperate and collaborate to ensure that these principles are heeded. Once the balance is in place, good buck is raised and the hunter has a great experience. The opposite is also true: if a proper balance between the role players, the habitat and animals don’t exist, sub-standard animals will be the result, and this will be traced back, in most cases, to the absence of a proper implementation of a Quality Deer Management plan. Individual hunters can play an important part to ensure that management goals are put in place, but the most important role players will be those that truly manage the land. In this instance one thinks of landowners, their managers and support staff. Some owners who make leases available to hunters manage the land themselves because they are there every day. Many owners are absent, and they ensure that they appoint responsible managers, biologists and researchers to ensure a proper management plan is implemented. Some of these management companies control large tracts of land that hunters visit every year, and they make sure that the balance referred to earlier, is always kept in place. They understand how habitat impacts on quality deer, and they also understand how many animals are just right for a certain area. These companies are often approached to assist landowners with this very important issue. About Us At Westervelt Wildlife we manage more than 600, 000 acres of hunting leases across a few states in the southeast of the United States in conjunction with our main activity, which is timber production. Our expertise allows us to manage our activities to incorporate good management capabilities with high quality wildlife practices and excellent hunting opportunities for the enthusiast. We have been known for many years for the hunting leases we offer and the wildlife services that we believe form the backbone of proper, responsible hunting activities. We are proud of our history and the ethical behavior we are known for in terms of the land and wildlife that we are responsible for. For more about us, please visit https://westerveltwildlife.com.