How soon after logging do elk come in?

[carpsniperg2]

The next day

[grundy53]

Ok so i hear from all of you that you agree the animals love the freshcut greens, but my question is what happens when the greens are gone and the grass hasnt started growing yet? The animals would move on for awhile at least and then maybe come back once the grass starts to grow. Agree?

My buddy shot his bull this year in the middle of a year old clearcut. There wasn't a stitch of green. I don't think they really give a Damn whether its been logged. If there's trees they will use it as cover. If there's browse they will use it to eat. If there is neither then they will use it for easy travel.

[Armadillo]

Ive heard some talk about deer and elk using the clearcuts not only a food source but as their primary hangout spot when their antlers are in velvet and therefore sensitive

[alecvg]

Ive heard some talk about deer and elk using the clearcuts not only a food source but as their primary hangout spot when their antlers are in velvet and therefore sensitive

This is true, I drive around in the clear cuts and see deer, does and bucks, right off the road in the clearcuts, but once september comes they are in the timber and thick nast brush.  Same with deer in the alpine, blacktails especially, you see buck all summer long in velvet, then come september, they take alot of work to find.

[zackmioli]

frostman - we definitely need to do some logging in the national forests here on the west side.

[logger]

We are going to be this summer off the 25 rd. and behind the cispus center , but it won't be much, there is a pretty good sized timber sale up by baby shoe pass that is supposed to get going some time this summer. BUT it's just a pube hair in the muffin patch compared to what they really need to do, funny I just read an article today about obama wanting to purchase more land, hell they don't take care of what they got.

[frostman]

I could go on forever about the need to manage our National Forests.

Packwood hasn't seen a new clearcut for decades outside the no shooting zone. The Elk are all in the Big Bottom now. There isn't any feed in the grown over clearcuts.

They are doing some thinning in the 25 year stuff. Should help a little. There is huge reprod areas that need commercial thinning and a lot of mature second growth timber that could be harvested.

This is the essence of the battle between conservationists (hunters / loggers) and preservationists (environmental groups / liberal democrats). These insane liberal interests believe it requires a hands off approach when it comes to public lands. This is suicidal to the forests.

You can not change the past. You can't change the fact that the forest service contracted out to the timber interests and took out a lot of old growth. Given this fact it is vital to continue to manage the land.

Sell timber, make clearcuts! Deer and Elk like clearcuts.

[PolarBear]

Deer and elk also like oat hay pastures right as it is ready to cut and bale!   A herd of elk can come in and in a couple of nights mash several acres of prime hay right down to the ground. 

[44 Flattop]

Back when clearcuts were burned after logging, I'd see deer and elk both licking the edge of a burnpile while it was still burning, occasionally. Must be something in the ashe. 

More than once when I was running skidder, after I had set the chokers and was choking the turn into the back of the skidder, I literally pulled tree tops right out of the mouths of a deer or elk.

Also when I was running shovel during deer season I used to keep my pistol with me.  More than once I shot a buck in between skidders skidding in their turns.  Once during elk season a hunter came walking in to the landing.  He had killed a bull at the back edge of our unit where we had just skidded the logs out of.  We skidded his elk into the landing while he went and got his truck, then I took hold it it with the shovel and set it in the bed as he backed in. 

Saved that guy a LOT of work!

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[elkboy]

Agreed with many of the previous posts- deer and elk will run to an ongoing operation to have at the green boughs and (even more) the canopy lichens like lungwort.  Feeding activity will then pick up when shrubs and herbs have achieved high cover (often 5-15 years after logging), and before tree crowns close and shade out the browse species. 

[wsucowboy]

Deer and elk also like oat hay pastures right as it is ready to cut and bale!   A herd of elk can come in and in a couple of nights mash several acres of prime hay right down to the ground. 

Ain't that the truth!

[AKBowman]

while they are logging

What he said.

X3. Actually seen em this past late season bedded near logging equipment on two different equations. I mean right up next to the equipment, within a few feet. Old guy who had been hunting back there for 25 plus yrs told me they will bed right up under the logging equipment on the weekends cuz they feel comfortable.

[Kowsrule30]

They come in like clock work whenever they want...  They eat the litchen off the down trees..... 

[Alan K]

Back when clearcuts were burned after logging, I'd see deer and elk both licking the edge of a burnpile while it was still burning, occasionally. Must be something in the ashe. 

More than once when I was running skidder, after I had set the chokers and was choking the turn into the back of the skidder, I literally pulled tree tops right out of the mouths of a deer or elk.

Also when I was running shovel during deer season I used to keep my pistol with me.  More than once I shot a buck in between skidders skidding in their turns.  Once during elk season a hunter came walking in to the landing.  He had killed a bull at the back edge of our unit where we had just skidded the logs out of.  We skidded his elk into the landing while he went and got his truck, then I took hold it it with the shovel and set it in the bed as he backed in. 

Saved that guy a LOT of work!

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Cool story!

[blackhorn]

What have you guys noticed after spraying?