Wildlife & Woodlot Management is a comprehensive guide for hunters and landowners who want to develop, manage, and maintain their land for maximum enjoyment. Readers learn how to choose the type of land that will match the game they want to attract, whether it is waterfowl, upland, small game, or big game. Addressing one of the hottest topics today, author Monte Burch delves into planning food plots, preparing the soil, and what tools and equipment will work best. Monte offers advice on how to manage woodlots, reintroduce a forest, fell and girdle trees, establish grasslands, and manage water. Based on his own land management practices, Burch teaches a variety of techniques, with easy-to-follow instructions and solid advice.

Introduction -- The Land : 1. Choosing land -- 2. Assessing land ; Food Plots : 3. Planning food plots -- 4. Preparing the land -- 5. Improving soil fertility -- 6. Preparing the soil and planting -- 7. Food plot care and maintenance -- 8. Food plot tools ; Managing Timber and Woodlands : 9. Assessment and management plan -- 10. Timber stand improvement for wildlife -- 11. Timber habitat management practices -- 12. Reforestation -- 13. Forest maintenance -- 14. Timber and woodlot management tools ; Vines, Shrubs, and Soft Mast : 15. Assessing the land for soft mast -- 16. Soft mast management ; Minerals and Supplemental Feeding : 17. Essential vitamins and minerals for wildlife -- 18. Supplemental feeding -- 19. Game feeders -- 20. Monitoring food plots, mineral licks, and feeders ; Grassland Management : 21. Assessing grasslands -- 22. General grassland management -- 23. Grasslands establishment ; Prescribed Burns : 24. Advantages of prescribed burns -- 25. Implementing prescribed burns ; Managing for Specific Species : 26. White-tailed deer -- 27. Wild turkeys -- 28. Upland birds -- 29. Small game -- 30. Waterfowl ; Water Management : 31. Riparian corridors, springs,and spring seeps -- 32. Ponds, stock tanks, and reservoirs ; Predators and Poachers : 33. Predators -- 34. Poachers.