In case you didn't know about old man's beard

[SwampDonkey]

For years if you had an old hunting camp that needed snow removed like below, and you were in spruce-balsam fir woods where white tail deer might yard up, you would notice lots of deer activity around old windfalls. The deer would strip the dead limbs of a lichen called old man's beard.



My grandfather cleaning one of his hunting camp roofs on Serpentine Lake. That's some snow. ;D

Not only were the old guides, good hunters, they were the best biologists to. Most never wrote books, but they could tell the best stories and probably advertised in hunting magazines. ;D

A link to a few words on natural food plots in northern Michigan.

http://www.compoundbows.com/pages/food-plots/whitetail-food-plots/whitetail-food-plot-leaves-lichens-and-needles

[Grizzly]

We don't have a lot of that around in our area, but this looks exactly like the stuff we used for fire starter when fishing on the Churchill River. We needed shore lunch and after gathering a bit of wood we collected up a couple of hatfulls of this stuff and with just the touch of a match we had fire. Same stuff I wonder?

Our deer have good access to grains and grass and we seldom see them browsing on trees. Meats very different from what I harvested in the mountains of BC too.

When I first read the subject I thought you'd be writing about several of the members on here............ :D

[Autocar]

It would of been alot of fun to share a camp with those fellows and hear all the storys. Growing up I always enjoyed listening to them telling there tales.

[Jeff]

From a dozen years ago.
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,9387.0.html

[SwampDonkey]

I had forgotten about that thread, but I knew that the topic had come up at some time. 

[fishpharmer]

Just learned something new! Thanks again forestryforum! 8)