I hinge, leave tops, throw salt in the brush piles. I leave multifora rose which many people hate, but I see a lot of deer browse on it and the rabbits like it. I don’t shoot many rabbits on our farm at all. I leave them for the kids and the hounds. It all seems to help. I have a lot of bobcats which are protected in Indiana still. I cannot wait to trap them. They get their share of the turkeys and rabbits it seems. I take their affinity to our place as a compliment, but I’m very much looking forward to adding a couple to my own personal field museum. I just wish I didn’t live 3 hours away. I grew up having thousands of acres to hunt close to home, have basically none now. Solas has been kind enough to share some running ground with me.
