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Description of a Farm in Jackson County, Ohio

Discussion on the layout of a farm in Ohio, including the presence of timber and open pasture, managing for different types of vegetation, and the history of logging and fire on the property.

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Speaker 2
Well, can you explain
Speaker 4
what the farm, the layout of the farm and what was there to be? And what was there to begin with before you guys started doing work on it and just kind of describe the process you've gotten to know. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Yeah. So I was, I'll try to go into this. This kind of fun. We just did this podcast on a lot of this with Zach the other day on the hunting public podcast. So I don't think we should go in that deep. We'll try to do the cliff notes version. But if anyone wants to hear a lot more about that farm, check out the hunting public. So that was off the top of my head. But anyways, that's in down Appalachia, South Central Ohio, kind of an interesting area, just altogether. I'll just throw it out there. It's Jackson County. If anyone wants to look out on a map just to see what Jackson County, Ohio looks like. But it's freaking cool county. I got there's a lot of cattle pasture around me and I just happened to buy this property as a big holler. Basically, and it had cattle in it back in the day and for whatever reason. There's a lot of it that's open, which wouldn't, you know, it's kind of weird that it was open. Who knows how far back that goes. But it's a lot of it stayed open. So it's like a big holler. It's got a lot of timber 60 70 acres of timber. Little bits of like remaining pasture were left open. We've been and I got on some satellite historical maps and stuff and look back and a lot of the areas that were open. We're opening back up now. That's been like it over the last four years or so started in like 2018 on that place. But. So there's some bottom fields that it cut some hay on just creaks, but just one massive holler, but pretty neat. So we kind of got this one side that we sort of managed for more early successional old field type stuff. And then the other basically half the property more than half the property is just big timber ridges big knobs big secondary and dairy ridges points. Ochikari over story. You got some like coves north facing coves and stuff with a lot of poplar, but it's neat because there's still a lot of oak down in there too. Kind of shadier sites, which is kind of indicated to me that maybe that thing was for whatever reason, the land use or whatever it was maybe a lot more. Certainly son here because I mean now is so shady that I mean there's a little bit to like regen and oak regen in some of those spots, but. You know, for Oaks to be in the overstory in a north facing area. It's I mean it had to have been some sun in there at one point more than probably what it was since Ben and I obviously got to messing with it, but. There was some logging history there. There was a fire in like the 70s like a block burner kind of wildfire that kind of shaped things a little bit. Yeah, Ben and I basically have been there whooping that place into shape cleaning up like so a lot of what was cattle pasture that we just I've been we've been burning and using herbicides just to get the non native cool season grasses out of there. That's kind of been a little slow going those are they're pesky sometimes they kind of seem to come back from seed or whatever you know I've sprayed some of them they've come back. Gosh, we sprayed and burned that works pretty darn well. But yeah, we're doing a lot of timber sand and a lot of burning there.

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