Whitetail Micro-Plotters, Wildlife Habitat and Food Plot Specialists. Construction, Enhancement or Restoration of Native Browse or Food Plot Forage

Based in Westminster, Vermont and serving primarily the New England region, Whitetail Micro-Plotters has helped many do-it-yourselfers that have a vested interest in creating, enhancing or restoring their property for wildlife. Our clients and friends have also discovered and had regular success with our food plot seed blends for wildlife ranging from whitetail deer, moose and bear, to grouse, turkeys and songbirds.

Due to drastic habitat changes in the last decade or so, interested people have turned to food plots and habitat enhancements as a means to provide for their wildlife, both furred and feathered alike. Whitetail Micro-Plotters can provide food plot plans and seed blends custom-designed for your property using what is naturally available for "forage" and cover. For many properties, native habitat restoration is highly recommended and can undoubtedly compliment a food plot regime.

          In this post-2000 era of wildlife management, properties are substantially smaller than they used to be. Vast tracts of land and several hundred acre parcels are no longer the norm. Instead, many properties range between five and ten acres. Whitetail Micro-Plotters helps to implement habitat goals with respect to the size of your acreage, big or small. Small properties can be incredible wildlife habitat, and are often managed in a more garden-style fashion - plot dimensions can be as small as 10ft x 10ft and offer as many as six different seed blends! It doesn't take a genius to understand that a well-planned, small-scale food plot matrix can provide as much square footage and biomass as one large plot. To take it a step further, several neighboring landowners with the same mindset, can have an incredible impact on wildlife health if they implement the same goals on their adjoining properties.

          From the very beginning, a primary goal of Whitetail Micro-plotters has been to promote wildlife habitat by including people from all walks of life; whether they are bird watchers, hunters, wildlife photographers, insect lovers or just people who like to plant seeds and garden. Basically, if wildlife health and habitat is the goal, everyone should have the opportunity to play a part. Of all the people we've been fortunate enough to help, the majority of the interest has been in these four categories:

  1. Bird Watchers, including birds as large as turkeys and grouse or as small as thrushes and bobolinks;

  2. Hunters and Deer lovers that want to increase their chance of taking a deer while giving something back (like "earning" their deer), and others that want to provide protein-rich forage for lactating does and their new fawns;

  3. Photographers wanting to take outdoor pictures of flora and fauna; things like wildflowers, amphibians, insects and of course furred and feathered critters; and

  4. Landowners who don't care about anything other than keeping nibbling nuisance critters out of their gardens (YES, food plots and habitat enhancement can help for that!)

         As already mentioned, your food plots can be as large or as small as you choose, considering the size of your land and your targeted wildlife's need for cover (you don't want to cut and clear vegetation or trees if they're better left standing). Most plots are outfitted with a "perennial base" seed blend that is traversed by "annual rows" of another blend. This micro-plotting technique allows for maximum diversity in a smaller space (also a very valuable technique when applied to large properties), less obtrusion and more security for your wildlife and also allows for easy seasonal maintenance by the landowner. Perennials seed blends can be expected to last up to six years with proper care. Though annual seed blends do not often last beyond one growing season, their fast growth and richness makes them highly desirable.