Hardwoods-100
acres of Cherry Bark Oak and Nutall Oak
Cypress
Trees in Swamp Protected
One
American Liberty Elm (disease resistant strain)
Loblolly
Pine Plantations-400 acres-highly mananged -thinned and prescribed
fire
22 acres of wildlife openings
Whitetail Deer Management-plantings include crimson clover, ladino
clover, cow peas, corn, soybeans, Austrian Winter Peas, lespedezia,
partridge peas, sorghum, and winter grains. Also have Sawtooth Oak.
Also promote natural plants by strip disking and burning.
Natural
BobWhite Quail-Several coveys. Plantings include partridge peas, bi-color,
autumn olive and lespedezia
Wild Turkey-Plantings include chufa, persimmon, gobbler sawtooth oak,autumn
olive, ladino clover, ryegrass, sorghum, and soybeans.
Wood
Ducks-2 nesting boxes
Song Birds-songbird feeders with thistle, mixed seed, hummingbird
feeders, and much natural crop and seeds. Also have bluebird houses
and martin house.
Threatened
& endangered species-
Wood
Stork uses tall and dead cypress trees to nest;
Fresh water mussels only found on this section of the Sipsey River
Other
wildlife on property includes:
o Cotton Tail & Cane Cutter Rabbits
o Beaver, River Otter, Mink, & Muskrat
o Squirrels, Fox, Bobcat, Opossum, Armadillo, Coyote, Panther, &
Snipe