Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Maine/Virginia
Posts: 239

Hello Everyone:

I see quite a few folks I recognize from some of the squirrel dog websites. Sorry I am so late getting here to the UKC forum. I look forward to reading what is going on here.

-Marc

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 14

Hey Mark,

Just wanted to welcome you to the forums

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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Maine/Virginia
Posts: 239

Thanks! It looks like quite a bit is going on here.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Kalamazoo, Mich.
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Glad to have ya Marc. Where abouts in SD? That has to be a frustrating state for a squirrel dog guy compared to VA. Not enough trees! Or does that mean there are so few trees that each one has a squirrel in it?

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 14

Glad to see you make it over

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Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Maine/Virginia
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Thanks. I am in grad school at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. It is in the east central part of the state. Close to the MN line.

A lot of the trees about here are fence rows and shelterbelts around homesteads. We hunt in the state park about 15 miles away quite a bit that has more trees, mostly bur oak. There are no gray squirrels here, just fox squirrels.

We can be in hundreds of acres of public timber in around an hour. We hunt bottomland and, contrary to popular belief, some big hills down south of Sioux Falls, SD and about 900 acres of timbered hills located in another state park in the northeastern part of the state.

There are good spots to squirrel hunt in SD, you just have to look a little harder. I say that but it is getting to the point in Virginia where there it lots of of timber but few places to hunt. So much land is being converted to housing developments, shopping centers, etc. in the Piedmont outside of Richmond where I grew up. Access is the issue in many areas and lack of quality habitat is the problem in others. Pocahontas State Park is our best bet close to where my folks live.

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