Wildlife Planting

Wildlife Planting

Material Available

Landowners should place orders for wildlife planting materials distributed by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries with their game warden during March, reminds Game Division Chief R. H. Cross. Bags of annual game bird mixture, each sufficient to plant V8 acre, are available free to qualified landowners and to clubs and civic groups who can substantiate that they have land available for planting. The materials are attractively packaged in clear plastic bags with a multi-color illustration of game birds on the front. The annual game bird mix consists of soy beans, cowpeas, Korean lespedeza, German millet, brown-top millet, buckwheat, milo maize and rape, harvested from Game Commission Wildlife Management Areas. It has proven to be attractive to quail, turkeys, doves, rabbits and deer. It is best planted in strips along field edges adjacent to cover. Woodland fire trails, abandoned logging roads and power line or pipe line rights of way are excellent. Orders for the game bird mixture should be placed with the game warden assigned to the county in which the property is located. Materials will be delivered in time for spring planting. A total of 90,324 pounds were planted by 12,571 cooperators in the spring of 1970. Federal assistance for developing wildlife habitat on agricultural lands is available through local Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices. Wildlife improvements included under “G” practices in the Agricultural Conservation program provide for cost sharing in establishing wildlife food and cover, fencing to exclude livestock and constructing ponds.