Hinge cutting for deer habitat workshop: 2014 QDMA National Convention

Jim Brauker of Extreme Deer Habitat and Jake Ehlinger of Habitat Solutions gave a workshop on Hinge Cutting for deer habitat at the 2014 Quality Deer Management Association ( QDMA ) National Convention in Athens Georgia. Jake used a hand drawn aerial view of the property to show the plan he devised to improve deer bedding and movement on the property. They created a hinge cut deer bedding area and a hinge cut transition zone from bedding to food using hinge cutting techniques. The pair presented a workshop the year before that went into detail about how to properly hinge cut a tree and the three main kinds of structures produced to create hinge cut bedding, barriers, and transition zones. In 2014 they went beyond that to show how to hinge cut to produce predictable movement of doe families from bedding to food through a hinge cut  transition zone about 25 yards from an archery stand location.  Michigan resident Dan Timmons aka farmlegend helped prepare the are and helped Jake demonstrate the building of a hinge cut buck bed in real time.  Leon Hank ran the camera.

Production value is not terribly high as this was run from a single camera, but if we ever begin to place production values ahead of content we should be taken to the wood shed.

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