Eroc33
Senior Member
So what are the bird dog training area's like near you? How is the habitat set up? Is it realistic cover you would encounter hunting wild birds?
I usually go to Joe Kurz and at first glance it looks good, but then when you get close most of the grass is so thick it's hard to see the dog, or train the dog, and my small dog has a hard time getting thru it. So except for one or two areas that are mowed so low you can't plant birds, the only other useable space is the pines. Now the understory is growing up in the pines, and it is getting to thick.
I am probably expecting a lot from a basically free training area, but it has a lot of potential. In my opinion they should have native grasses or row crops. the only other area I have seen was at beaver dam during turkey season, and it looked totally different.
There may native grasses planted at Joe Kurz I don't know, but it needs to be burned, or at the minimum some strips mowed into in my opinion.
Also I want to reach out to someone at the DNR, but I'm not sure who to talk to does anyone have a contact other than Dallas Ingram, I have already mentioned something to her.
I usually go to Joe Kurz and at first glance it looks good, but then when you get close most of the grass is so thick it's hard to see the dog, or train the dog, and my small dog has a hard time getting thru it. So except for one or two areas that are mowed so low you can't plant birds, the only other useable space is the pines. Now the understory is growing up in the pines, and it is getting to thick.
I am probably expecting a lot from a basically free training area, but it has a lot of potential. In my opinion they should have native grasses or row crops. the only other area I have seen was at beaver dam during turkey season, and it looked totally different.
There may native grasses planted at Joe Kurz I don't know, but it needs to be burned, or at the minimum some strips mowed into in my opinion.
Also I want to reach out to someone at the DNR, but I'm not sure who to talk to does anyone have a contact other than Dallas Ingram, I have already mentioned something to her.