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<blockquote data-quote="Tymurrey" data-source="post: 243048" data-attributes="member: 859">Just speaking from my experiences and thoughts on the cattle grazing and helping wildlife.&nbsp; I have a quarter of pasture land mostly draws and native grassland that I was trying to establish more trees on.&nbsp; I was just hand planting clusters and wanted to give the trees a chance for the roots to take hold before I grazed it any.&nbsp; The first few years the pasture looked great, new grasses and forbs seemed to come back that I hadn't seen before.&nbsp; About the 4th year of no grazing the dead grass became to much.&nbsp; It was still good for wildlife as the cover was still there but presented a serious fire hazard.&nbsp; With the drought in 2017 I decided it was best to graze it before it burned and I lost everything.&nbsp; I had a family member bring in cattle late in about july and graze it heavy until November.&nbsp; The pasture looked tough afterwards, the brush was thin and there wasn't much tall grass to be found.&nbsp; This year it looked better than it did for the last 3 years.&nbsp; the trees did better not having to compete with the tall grass and without the thick dead mat of grass new growth did better this year.&nbsp; I'm going to try to implement about a 3 year grazing rotation.&nbsp; As for PLOTS land the payments are not really that great, probably why you don't see much in prime habitat in PLOTS other than people who really don't care about hunting, but I think we will see less and less of that as hunting ground gets harder to find and more people offering to lease up good ground.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tymurrey, post: 243048, member: 859"] Just speaking from my experiences and thoughts on the cattle grazing and helping wildlife. I have a quarter of pasture land mostly draws and native grassland that I was trying to establish more trees on. I was just hand planting clusters and wanted to give the trees a chance for the roots to take hold before I grazed it any. The first few years the pasture looked great, new grasses and forbs seemed to come back that I hadn't seen before. About the 4th year of no grazing the dead grass became to much. It was still good for wildlife as the cover was still there but presented a serious fire hazard. With the drought in 2017 I decided it was best to graze it before it burned and I lost everything. I had a family member bring in cattle late in about july and graze it heavy until November. The pasture looked tough afterwards, the brush was thin and there wasn't much tall grass to be found. This year it looked better than it did for the last 3 years. the trees did better not having to compete with the tall grass and without the thick dead mat of grass new growth did better this year. I'm going to try to implement about a 3 year grazing rotation. As for PLOTS land the payments are not really that great, probably why you don't see much in prime habitat in PLOTS other than people who really don't care about hunting, but I think we will see less and less of that as hunting ground gets harder to find and more people offering to lease up good ground. [/QUOTE]

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