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Post by badgerfowl on Feb 16, 2024 10:05:35 GMT -6
Deer are hitting the freshly fallen branch.
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 16, 2024 12:03:24 GMT -6
Just saw an ad on FB, 320 acres of spruce swamp for $265k near Eveleth. I wonder how much that chunk would sell for if they had any deer up there? There is about a 100 acre black spruce swamp in my Rusk County neighborhood and I own about 1/3 of it. It provides good cover, but it kind of sucks hunting since it is always wet, and it is a pain dragging deer out and you have to cut shooting lanes to see more than 10 feet in the stuff. It is nice to have that cover in the neighborhood, but I wouldn't want a property that is mostly black spruce swamp. You can get a great price per acre on that type of land though.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 16, 2024 12:08:09 GMT -6
Just saw an ad on FB, 320 acres of spruce swamp for $265k near Eveleth. I wonder how much that chunk would sell for if they had any deer up there? There is about a 100 acre black spruce swamp in my Rusk County neighborhood and I own about 1/3 of it. It provides good cover, but it kind of sucks hunting since it is always wet, and it is a pain dragging deer out and you have to cut shooting lanes to see more than 10 feet in the stuff. It is nice to have that cover in the neighborhood, but I wouldn't want a property that is mostly black spruce swamp. You can get a great price per acre on that type of land though. Dragging a deer out of my tamarack swamp is very low on my list of things to do. $800/acre for a half section of ground is pretty crazy when you think about it. If the deer herd was ever allowed to recover, I'd think you could make some money at some point.
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 16, 2024 14:42:29 GMT -6
There is about a 100 acre black spruce swamp in my Rusk County neighborhood and I own about 1/3 of it. It provides good cover, but it kind of sucks hunting since it is always wet, and it is a pain dragging deer out and you have to cut shooting lanes to see more than 10 feet in the stuff. It is nice to have that cover in the neighborhood, but I wouldn't want a property that is mostly black spruce swamp. You can get a great price per acre on that type of land though. Dragging a deer out of my tamarack swamp is very low on my list of things to do. $800/acre for a half section of ground is pretty crazy when you think about it. If the deer herd was ever allowed to recover, I'd think you could make some money at some point. While it sucks dragging a deer out of the swamp, a black spruce/tamarack swamp is a pretty cool place that is completely different than anything around SE MN where I grew up. You know you are "up north" when you walk into a spruce swamp. It is one of the few places that I just leave alone (other than cutting shooting lanes) since it stays thick naturally, and it is so wet that you can't really cut down trees and plant something else. The only things that can grow there are already growing there. I never seem to have a free day when we are at the cabin, but eventually I'm hoping to have some extra time to spend picking cranberries or hunting grouse again in the swamp. The wild cranberries grow thick in a couple of my shooting lanes, but I never pick them. In my days before kids, my friends and I would spend a lot of time up there hunting late season grouse in the swamp and it could be really good when conditions pushed the birds there from the adjacent uplands. Now that I'm a little older and have less spare time, my grouse hunting now involves sticking to the easier walking areas in the upland woods and field edges.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 16, 2024 15:15:54 GMT -6
^^^I agree that spruce swamps are cool to see.
Watching forests change from here to FL and back was really enjoyable for me. Probably not for my wife who had to listen to me talk about it though.
I came home wanting to plant some sycamore trees. I hadn't seen mature specimens in the winter before. Really cool looking trees
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Post by benmnwi on Feb 16, 2024 18:50:10 GMT -6
^^^I agree that spruce swamps are cool to see. Watching forests change from here to FL and back was really enjoyable for me. Probably not for my wife who had to listen to me talk about it though. I came home wanting to plant some sycamore trees. I hadn't seen mature specimens in the winter before. Really cool looking trees I’ve been to Florida a few times and I enjoyed seeing orange trees growing all over down there. I couldn’t recognize many other trees there though. I used to have to travel more for work and got to see a lot of the country. Every time I’d fly into a big city I’d think it’s a shithole and can’t believe anyone would live here. Then I’d take the rental car anywhere out of town and get 15 miles away it seemed like a place I would like to live.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 17, 2024 7:50:04 GMT -6
Just saw an ad on FB, 320 acres of spruce swamp for $265k near Eveleth. I wonder how much that chunk would sell for if they had any deer up there? I saw that ad and am always skeptical when I see it promoting mature pines to harvest. I bet they are black spruce and not pines. So many don’t know spruce from pines from cedars. All are conifers. I just don’t think the seller or realtor really know what they are talking about. Credibility always goes down for a northwoods guy like me (JPS) when they can’t identify the conifers. I hear the same thing from some ‘experienced’ hunters. I guess they are hunters and not woodsmen.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 17, 2024 8:17:50 GMT -6
Just saw an ad on FB, 320 acres of spruce swamp for $265k near Eveleth. I wonder how much that chunk would sell for if they had any deer up there? I saw that ad and am always skeptical when I see it promoting mature pines to harvest. I bet they are black spruce and not pines. So many don’t know spruce from pines from cedars. All are conifers. I just don’t think the seller or realtor really know what they are talking about. Credibility always goes down for a northwoods guy like me (JPS) when they can’t identify the conifers. I hear the same thing from some ‘experienced’ hunters. I guess they are hunters and not woodsmen. I'm not even a JPS and they lose credibility with me too. I've stopped correcting the locals when they call burr oaks white oaks. I guess technically they are a white oak family member
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Post by Foggy on Feb 17, 2024 9:01:39 GMT -6
I saw that ad and am always skeptical when I see it promoting mature pines to harvest. I bet they are black spruce and not pines. So many don’t know spruce from pines from cedars. All are conifers. I just don’t think the seller or realtor really know what they are talking about. Credibility always goes down for a northwoods guy like me (JPS) when they can’t identify the conifers. I hear the same thing from some ‘experienced’ hunters. I guess they are hunters and not woodsmen. I'm not even a JPS and they lose credibility with me too. I've stopped correcting the locals when they call burr oaks white oaks. I guess technically they are a white oak family member I'll never forget standing on my snow shoes at Art's Land Tour about 12 years ago.....and leaning on a tree as we stopped to talk. I asked Art if he had many oak trees, and Stu said: "your leaning on one". Lol....embarassing moment. I'm not real good at tree ID......if they are green in the winter....they are "Evergreens". (I'm a bit better than that....lol)
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 17, 2024 13:11:10 GMT -6
I saw that ad and am always skeptical when I see it promoting mature pines to harvest. I bet they are black spruce and not pines. So many don’t know spruce from pines from cedars. All are conifers. I just don’t think the seller or realtor really know what they are talking about. Credibility always goes down for a northwoods guy like me (JPS) when they can’t identify the conifers. I hear the same thing from some ‘experienced’ hunters. I guess they are hunters and not woodsmen. I'm not even a JPS and they lose credibility with me too. I've stopped correcting the locals when they call burr oaks white oaks. I guess technically they are a white oak family member My family was guilty of that. The only white oak family trees that we had were burs. Pins and reds were just called red oaks. I still see all sorts of mixes that I suspect are hybrids.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 17, 2024 13:12:01 GMT -6
I'm not even a JPS and they lose credibility with me too. I've stopped correcting the locals when they call burr oaks white oaks. I guess technically they are a white oak family member I'll never forget standing on my snow shoes at Art's Land Tour about 12 years ago.....and leaning on a tree as we stopped to talk. I asked Art if he had many oak trees, and Stu said: "your leaning on one". Lol....embarassing moment. I'm not real good at tree ID......if they are green in the winter....they are "Evergreens". (I'm a bit better than that....lol) Dang that was a long time ago.
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Post by terrifictom on Feb 20, 2024 17:25:53 GMT -6
A 3 year old boy disappeared about 3 blocks from our house. Went missing at 8 am today. Wasn't reported until 11am. They have been searching neighbor hood since. Now police are going house to house, even searching inside some houses. Dogs searching, drones searching and now helicopters with thermal imaging. Command center set up 5 blocks from house. This is the stuff you see in TV dramas. Just crazy. Hoping that this turns out with a happy ending, but not looking that way.
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Post by biglakebass on Feb 20, 2024 19:14:06 GMT -6
Oh man...... what a terror for the parents. ugh.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 20, 2024 23:30:07 GMT -6
A 3 year old boy disappeared about 3 blocks from our house. Went missing at 8 am today. Wasn't reported until 11am. They have been searching neighbor hood since. Now police are going house to house, even searching inside some houses. Dogs searching, drones searching and now helicopters with thermal imaging. Command center set up 5 blocks from house. This is the stuff you see in TV dramas. Just crazy. Hoping that this turns out with a happy ending, but not looking that way. I remember an incident in our hood back in the 70's. Was a rural development with about 40 homes and lots of woodland, a river, and a gravel pit and farm fields around too. The kid went sleep walking in the middle of the night. Got a phone call and all the neighborhood went looking for him. Searched high and low....and my friend found him in the middle of a corn field about 1/4 mile from his home. Strange night / good ending / nice kid today.
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Post by terrifictom on Feb 21, 2024 11:27:44 GMT -6
Update on missing 3 year old. They found shoe that boy was suppose to be wearing in bush near apartment. Found clothing in dumpster behind his apartment. Father is doing time in prison for domestic abuse. Mother just recently got custody of boy back . She is dating cousin of boys father who also has a child abuse charge on his record. The boyfriend was the caretaker when boy went missing. Both the mother and boyfrien/caretaker booked into county jail at 3:40 am this morning. Also pickup that was parked at apartment where boy went missing was impounded and hauled away by State Patrol as evidence. This is getting more disturbing by the hour. Doesn't look good for the missing boy. They also pumped out a swamp near by over night and had divers in river this morning.
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