Posted: 11/25/2025 2:00:25 PM EDT
| My relatives are telling me they are building roads and clear cutting the area we've hunted in for the last 70 years. Are they just logging, or are the selling land? |
| My guess is logging. The Feds have cut back on a lot of paperwork and required studies to up timber production. I believe the Nicolet- Chequamegon forest is the biggest lumber producer of all the Nat'l forests. Seems to me it would make management a lot easier if logging could be easily regulated and used to keep the forest healthy- or you could do like Cali does and just let it rot and burn. |
| I just messaged my daughter about this. She works for the forest service and her job is to survey areas for anything historically significant, like Indian mounds, etc. prior to timber harvesting |
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According to daughter, nicolet national Forest has regular harvesting. Aspen gets clear cut on a 40 year cycle, everything else is just thinned every once in awhile. So sounds like op has a lot of Aspen in their area. And or it's just their turn. |
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Well, the dumbass tree done drilled you in the butt and laid eggs in ya." -RJinks
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That's my neighborhood. I'm just a few miles away, I haven't been in the Nicolet since Monday.  It's just normal logging. Last year they logged the area where our most productive bear bait was, and we did have a tag. It was known as the "Four Mile creek cut" to the loggers, and is in the Military Road, Four Mile Lake, Seven Mile Lake, Nine Mile Lake area. The down side of it... The heavy traffic from the logging trucks going in & out all summer moved the bears into full blown nocturnal mode, or out of the area totally. They wanted no part of the noise & confusion caused by the loggers. It was the worst bear season for us since we started bear hunting in 2010. Not only us, but friends who hunt nearby had the same shit. Almost zero daytime activity at the baits, and more after dark activity than ever before.  But that's Ok, it's just one season. New growth is good for the wildlife, and turkey, grouse, bear, and deer hunting will only get much better when it begins growing back (already has). And the new roads they built for those big logging trucks to access the forest are there now for us to use, for decades after the loggers are finished. I have personally hunted the same area they logged the past 2-3 years for 34 years, since moving here in 1991. I use a logging road they built in 1993, when they logged there. The forest service doesn't maintain it to keep it open, as far as clearing deadfalls etc. The hunters, like myself, do that for them. I never go out there without my chainsaw, and my Jeep's winch has never been used for anything other than road clearing. I have single-handedly kept a 1-1/2 mile section of dead end logging road open. |
These are the next areas to be logged. The "Wilkins" cut is in my prime hunting area. They marked the boundaries last summer... and they used the road I kept open for them to get in there..  https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/chequamegon-nicolet/forest-products/tentative-schedule-quarterly-timber-sales |
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Originally Posted By rcav8r: According to daughter, nicolet national Forest has regular harvesting. Aspen gets clear cut on a 40 year cycle, everything else is just thinned every once in awhile. So sounds like op has a lot of Aspen in their area. And or it's just their turn. Popple and they ought to get their contracts to clean up the tops and branches instead of leaving a tangle no one can walk through |
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Originally Posted By rfb45colt: It makes good forage for deer. I've noticed this in the past whenever my farmer neighbors clear cut an area for livestock grazing, the deer sightings increase. Evidently, the sound of running chainsaws is like ringing the dinner bell. Gary |
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Originally Posted By jack_pine_savage: I've noticed this in the past whenever my farmer neighbors clear cut an area for livestock grazing, the deer sightings increase. Evidently, the sound of running chainsaws is like ringing the dinner bell. Gary Interesting, I was just watching a reel about this guy deer hunting on his land, and his neighbor decided it was a good time and place to do some trimming with a chainsaw. The comments were full of answers like yours for the same reason. |
"You know how butt ugly people are said to have hit every branch on the way down the ugly tree.
Well, the dumbass tree done drilled you in the butt and laid eggs in ya." -RJinks
Well, the dumbass tree done drilled you in the butt and laid eggs in ya." -RJinks
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Originally Posted By jack_pine_savage: I've noticed this in the past whenever my farmer neighbors clear cut an area for livestock grazing, the deer sightings increase. Evidently, the sound of running chainsaws is like ringing the dinner bell. Gary Deer feed on the buds on the ends of tree branches. Certain trees must have have more tasty buds than others, and popple & birch are amongst those that deer prefer to feed on. But they can only reach those branches 6' or so off the ground (and lower), by standing upright on their rear legs. When someone cuts down a tree and leaves the branches behind on the ground where they can easily access it, that's a bonanza of natural food for the deer that they couldn't reach otherwise. |
| I've talked to the loggers who were working in the area we hunted in the Flambeau Forest and they said that when they were working with saws, the deer came hustling over and were feeding near them while they were working. Dinner bell is what the saws were all right. Not worth the hassle of picking the tops up as they do more good than harm on the ground. They also said that when they saw a deer high-tailing it through the woods, they were usually followed by several wolves. The rifles in the skid steer? - well, just in case, ya know. |