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Offline DaNewb

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Game trails to nowhere?
« on: Yesterday at 03:50:37 PM »
So I was out exploring my area a few weeks ago while I was checking cameras and I ended up doing a bit of bushwhacking using OnX. I was moving N2S along a transition line between a stand of Fir and a stand of Alder. The Fir is Weyerhaeuser and the Alder is a family plot, separated by the lot line I was following.

Anyways, as I'm trekking through the timber, more on the fir side, I came across what appeared to be well-used game trail running E\W. I stopped long enough to walk maybe 50ft each direction from where I'd came across it, then marked the location in OnX, with plans to come back and place a camera and track it more fully.

When I got back to it a week or so later, I explored it fully. Heading east on the track it just meandered through the firs for a while and petered out.

Heading west on the track, into the alder, the brush got thick real quick...bull through it sorta thick. I could tell there was a track to follow, but the brush was so overgrown I would've never tried to pass through it otherwise. The track only went west a short distance, maybe 50yds or so before it ended in this tiny little clearing maybe 20-30ft across. No other exit I could see but the way I came. No tracks or sign at all.

I turned around and went back to my start and placed a cam facing west, but I don't see how anything large could be using the track to any purpose. It's been a couple weeks now and I'll be checking it in the next couple days.

Ever encountered a dead-end game trail like that before?

Offline JDArms1240

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Re: Game trails to nowhere?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 05:11:48 PM »
Might just be a main “highway”, so to speak, in the travelings of a bunch of different deer/animals.  From there they probably have their own little trails that they break off and follow.

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Re: Game trails to nowhere?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 06:40:56 PM »
Animals tend to go underneath the brush when it gets that thick leaving little evidence of a trail. It’s common for alder stands to be so brushy you can't move.
Also alder stands tend to have more water availability and more food throughout making less reason for animals to stick to one path to go somewhere. They can go almost any direction and have food, cover and water in there.

 


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