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#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

Habitat Oasis Project in Ohio is a habitat management project removing invasive species on 80 acres

The Habitat Oasis Project is transforming 80 acres of 1970s reclaimed Ohio strip mine land into a native habitat oasis that wildlife will love.  Hardy Brothers Outdoors, Jason and Josh, provide a detailed introduction.

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#92 Habitat Oasis Project 2020 Recap Progress and Lessons Learned

#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

The Habitat Oasis Project is well underway with some progress, setbacks and lessons, and an unexpected conservation award from the local Soil and Water Conservation District.    Learn more about our efforts to return 150 acres of previously strip mined land to native habitat that create an oasis that wildlife love. 

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#25 Autumn Olive Removal - 3 Easy Methods Demonstrated on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

#34 Habitat Oasis Project Overview - Transforming an 80 acre strip mine back to native habitat

#25 Autumn Olive Removal - 3 Easy Methods Demonstrated on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

3 Approaches to removing the invasive plants Autumn olive (elaeagnus umbellata) and Russian Olive

Autumn olive (elaeagnus umbellata) and Russian Olive (elaeagnus angustifolia) are non-native invasive plants (deciduous shrubs or trees) and removal can seem daunting. We demonstrate three habitat management approaches to removing autumn olive on the Habitat Oasis Project, a strip mine rehabilitation effort, in Southeastern Ohio. 

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#26 Building and Managing Rabbit Habitat (Rabbitat) on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

#25 Autumn Olive Removal - 3 Easy Methods Demonstrated on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

Creating, building, managing rabbit habitat or rabbitat from brush piles

We have partnered with the USDA on an EQIP habitat management and strip mine rehabilitation program to remove and control the invasive sericea lespedeza and autumn olive shrubs while simultaneously building out brush piles to improve rabbit (rabbitat) and wildlife numbers in the area.   

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#28 Achieving Clover Food Plot Success for Whitetail Deer on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

Clover food plots & improving success w/ Clethodim 2E herbacide on Habitat Oasis Project in Ohio

Jason took overgrown fields of sericea lespedeza and turned them into lush clover food plots. The clover plot is frequently visited by whitetail deer, big Ohio bucks, bobcats, coyotes, rabbits and turkey.  These habitat management management efforts have been a key improved to our strip mine rehabilitation project.

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#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

#31 Establishing Pollinator Habitat with FREE seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund in SE Ohi

Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund provides free seed to plant pollinator field on Habitat Oasis Project

Planting pollinator seed mix on the Habitat Oasis Project, a habitat management and strip mine rehabilitation project, with free seed from the Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund and leveraging the USDA EQIP programs.  

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#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill with John Deere 4052R on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio

We're trying out no till on the Habitat Oasis Project with the Land Pride 606NT compact no till drill that we rented from the local Soil and Water Conservation District office.  Our first planting with the Land Pride no till drill is native warm season grasses (NWSG); big bluestem, little bluestem,  indian grass, and sideoats grama as part of our habitat management and strip mine rehabilitation efforts.

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#93 Converting Abandoned Pasture Land Into Premium Habitat for Whitetail Deer, Rabbits, and Turkey

#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

A year in review, March thru December, of the Lone Pine on the Habitat Oasis Project in SE Ohio.  We discuss how we are converted this abandoned pasture, that has been neglected for nearly 15 years, overrun with invasives and cool season grasses and we are transforming into high quality browse, high value clover and we discuss our select timbering, edge feathering, and the return of early successional woody plants.  It wasn't without challenges and pitfalls that we've learned we can avoid in 2021 with a little better planning. 

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#99 Frost Seeding Switchgrass on the Habitat Oasis Project for Whitetail Deer Habitat

#41 Planting Native Warm Season Grasses with the Land Pride 606NT No Till Drill and John Deere 4052R

#99 Frost Seeding Switchgrass on the Habitat Oasis Project for Whitetail Deer Habitat

Frost seeding Cave-in-Rock Switchgrass on the Habitat Oasis Project. I talk about my goals and strategy for the switchgrass, prepping the field, planting the field and how I will maintain it in the coming year.

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#108 Cutting Autumn Olive and Found Some Invasive Wineberry Canes

#108 Cutting Autumn Olive and Found Some Invasive Wineberry Canes

#99 Frost Seeding Switchgrass on the Habitat Oasis Project for Whitetail Deer Habitat

 Today I'm cutting down Autumn olive (elaeagnus umbellata) and Russian Olive (elaeagnus angustifolia), non-native invasive plants (deciduous shrubs or trees) and removal can seem daunting..  We are using the cut stump method but will require a future cut before applying the herbicide.   While doing so I also found a large patch of invasive #wineberry canes.  It was cold but great to be outdoors. 

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Habitat Oasis Project - Rehabilitating a strip mine for habitat management

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