Nice place by the looks of that. Wow, we don't see green anywhere near like that where I am any time of year!
I'm fortunate to play on it.
Picture you refer to looks like July . Early July maybe. That tall grass has white plumes some years.
It is beyond it's expected best life in years. Though I could divide rhizomes and replant to inspire new vigor.
It screens varied area. Originally planted a hundred at about 18 inch intervals.
Swampy area. An ancient sea ended near.
Old timer cleared the 1/4 section. Maybe more area..
Ran cattle on it as pasture. Later grew corn.
He dug drainage across the road to tie in to tail end of the big swamp that tapers down on this property to cross under the dirt road.
An engineer of equipment, he kept the backhoe afloat on swamp.
I met him when his vision extended to about 5 feet.
Helped him get a bucket on his tractor. Had some great chats.
A pilot license holder (part of his fun with equipment) he kept a small airstrip mowed near our property corner. His ashes are spread there now.
When he sold the land in parcels mine fell to investors that defaulted on it. Probably found people didn't want more swamp than dry. Plus you don't mess with actual wetlands here without penalty.
The guy that bought the "pig in a poke" I suspect was also speculating.
He did hunt it. Parked on the road as there was tough Russian olive defending access as it had all gone fallow.( Even deer walked around it using the road often.)
When he bought a place to live farther North with his young family he choose to liquidate .
Why a farther North realtor listing , but perhaps the area he was moving to..
Anyways I had looked at land for decades trying to find some hunting land I could afford with no money to speak of while I continued to save a dollar when I could.
I had settled on a price for hunting land per acre.
This property was over my budget I'd set. Plus even fallow it indicated decent soil. Soil being something tough to improve a lot without serious cost and labor. Being I live on near sand I have confirmed such.)
I had to look though. The big swamp this property ties to has a history of back in the Great Blizzard of 1978 when farmers put some feed in the swamp to preserve a nucleus of deer.
( Deer do not improve farm yields. But thank goodness some farmers don't object to a couple.)
I donned a rubber boot with the wool sock to fit its oversized winter purpose after I arrived on the hot already summer morning I went to look at the site alone with permission of the listing agent.
Pounded my truck uphill screeching paint and branches. Nice atop the slope from road. Nice beyond!
Hot diggity dog the site wasn't a poor imitation of deer ground! One might even be able to cross it without carrying a lunch!
Excited I'm driving home to contact the agent (about ten miles between ) and my foot started feeling real hot.
Looked down and still had my boot on...
My first offer was a third less than the asking price. It had to be to fit my tolerance price per small parcel acreage for hunting.
Byer accepted it.
Most of a couple acres I brush hogged. On the dry ground pictured most everything you see I either planted or let grow.
Deer follow a merry go round of paths I can aces using either my truck or wheelchair.
Don't tell anyone but I do a lot more deer watching that bothering deer.
My goal is to host a doe at fawning time every spring to offset any I remove.
Good nutrition and easy living , the young deer are free to go wherever. My contribution attempts are just sustainable balance.
And I really like "working" the property.
( You wouldn't know it from my home yard.)
