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when we bought the tract it had been cut over and was in longleaf pine and slash
pine and our our management plan was to have a family tree farm with an emphasis
on timber as well as wildlife and the wildlife component was just as important
as the timber and fortunately we are in the historic boundaries of the native
longleaf that was in Texas it's they refer to it as a longleaf Ridge and when
we started looking at lonely if it was just a no-brainer that we would plant
longleaf because of all the benefits that you derive from longleaf pine and in
terms of habitat it's just fabulous habitat one of the things about longleaf
Plantation to make it to optimize it and to get the desired result you have to
burn and so we went to school on that and we do our own burning and we try and
burn half of the place each year and so we're on a two-year rotation and you're
not going to be able to burn every year like for instance we didn't get to burn
last year just didn't get any burn weather but burning is extremely
important for a longleaf pine it it it's an ecosystem that evolved with fire and
what it does is it it releases your trees and allows the native grasses to
thrive which is what your ground nesting birds and turkey and really all the
other wildlife really need to flourish in a longleaf pine plantation this
portion of the farm was burned approximately two weeks ago and one of
our primary objectives for this burn was to eliminate some of the more volatile
fuels such as yo pond this plant to my left here is the yo pond tree and it's a
woody shrub that has a very waxy oily leaf and so when it gets ignited it
burns very hot and flares up and you see that this this long leaf here was
burned about two-thirds of the way up it's undamaged so long as you don't kill
the terminal but of this tree the tree survives by conducting this burn at this
time it also releases our pine trees restores nutrients to the soil that
encourages them to grow and for this little guy here to pop out of the grass
stage now he he looks like he's possibly damaged or injured but in truth in fact
he's not and he's already greening up and hopefully encouraged to jump out of
the grass stage and we refer to the grass stages is the long leaf pine of the way
they evolved they spend their first few years developing a root system and while
they're doing that we call that the grass stage and then once they've done
that sufficiently they pop out of the grass stage and are very competitive
another benefit from this barn is to knock back a plants like this American
beautyberry which is one of the primary forbes utilized by whitetail deer now
this this shrub will comeback from its roots with new foliage that's very
nutritious and beneficial to our deer I need a place to get out of this dirty
city and Sabine County is a beautiful County and it's it's it's it's mostly
National Forest and this property was historically in longleaf and that's what
we wanted to do is restore it to its original form if you will the habitat
that the longleaf pine plantation creates for your wildlife is just
phenomenal and the recreational component for us is just as important is
long-term financial gains and we didn't buy the place to sell it I bought it to
restore it and pass it to my children one of the main reasons that my wife and
I have bought this property and and are doing what we're doing is because we
want to leave it to our children I've got a 21 year old who loves to hunt and
loves the place and I've got a daughter she's 13 and
she loves the outdoors and my youngest son is 11 he loves to fish and so we we
did this for our family and to leave something lasting for our children and
it's a place that you can go and be close to nature and in this
hustle-bustle world that's just just knowing that you have that place to go
is it really gives you a peace of mind you know another consideration that that
was important to my wife and I is that we just wanted to do what's right by the
land and this property is an ecosystem at least the ecosystem were we
reestablished is an ecosystem that's in song life support there used to be I
don't know how many acres and lonely but it was all along the Gulf Coast Florida
Florida to Virginia to Texas and there's very little of it left and it's such an
important and wonderful ecosystem it's just a shame that more people aren't
embracing it so we're real pleased at what we've done and we're going to
continue to do it it's a historic site called fox owners hill and it has it's a
longleaf pine ecosystem and it's absolutely beautiful and gorgeous and we
have a good working relationship with the u.s. Forest Service we have an
agreement a cooperation agreement where they can undo or not have to use their
fire lanes and when they burn fox owners hill our agreement is that they burn the
north half of our the south half of our property which eliminates a lot of
erosion on the National Forest and eliminates the the amount of fire lanes
that have to be prepared every time we burn you have a really good relationship
with the NRCS they're just a wonderful organization they provide technical
assistance financial assistance guidance and moral support they're really really
a good group of and the folks that we've dealt with
they're just outstanding and we have a current contract with them right now but
our first contract with them on this track was in 2007 Mike is one of those
unique landowners that it it takes somebody special to get out there and to
find someone who's really interested in longleafand and what it takes in order
for lonely to succeed the challenges for longleaf restoration are that you've got
to do it right you've got to get a good herbicide job you've got to get a good
you have to have good site prep and longleaf doesn't like competition but if
you'll do it right it's really not that difficult and the NRCS has been
instrumental in making sure that we we got it right and we've had we have very
little mortality in our in our stand most people I know that have family
farms in East Texas the recreational component is very important they want
wildlife they want to hunt they want to see their wildlife and they also want to
manage for for their timber and if those are your goals longleaf is a no-brainer
because anyone if you if you drive around East Texas and you look at the
timber company tracks there's absolutely no sunlight hitting the ground if you
don't have sunlight hitting the ground it's not happening for your wildlife and
with lonely plantation you plant your trees on the spacing that allows
sunlight to hit the ground and every time you burn the portion that you burn
is a food plot because all of the American beautyberry all of the
Greenbriar all that kind of stuff that you're burning when they when they
sprout out they are chock full of nutrients and so it's it's
a wonderful ecosystem
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