North American Wildlife and Habitat
  • Home
  • THE BOOK
  • 2018 Daylight Activity Index
  • Outdoor Writer & Photo Journalist
    • CWD - Missouri
    • CWD Meeting 2025
    • CWD Meeting 2018
    • Missouri Wild Turkey >
      • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MISSOURI WILD TURKEY
      • 2021 Missouri Spring Turkey Season Worse in 24 Years
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Regulation Changes Needed
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Numbers
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Conservation
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Research
      • MDC Mythbusters Missouri Turkey Population
      • MDC Commission Meeting Wild Turkey
      • Missouri Quail and Wild Turkey
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Handout
      • 2022 Missouri Wild Turkey Season
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Habitat Initiative
      • Missouri Wild Turkey Habitat Initiative Only
      • Wild Turkey Hens Killed in Missouri
      • Wild Turkey Questions for MDC
      • 2022 Missouri Wild Turkey Poult Production
      • 1st Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 2nd Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 3rd Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 4th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 6th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 7th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 8th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 9th Annual National Wild Turkey Symposium
      • 2023 Missouri Spring Turkey Season
      • Missouri Wild Turkey History
      • Missouri Bobwhite Quail History
      • Missouri Rough Grouse History
      • Missouri Pheasant History
    • Missouri Black Bear >
      • Missouri Black Bear Population
      • Missouri Black Bear Baiting
      • Missouri Bears Only
      • Black Bear Hunting Series >
        • Black Bear Biology and Behavior
        • Black Bear Hunting Methods
        • Black Bear Scouting
        • Black Bear Scouting Continued
        • Black Bear Field Judging Bears
        • Black Bear Hunting Season
        • Black Bear on the Ground
        • Black Bear is out of the woods
      • Missouri Black Bear Season 2021
    • Missouri Wild Hog Crisis >
      • HISTORY OF MISSOURI FERAL 2022 HOGS
      • Missouri Wild Hog Records
      • Bollinger Wild Hog
      • Wayne County Hogs
      • Madison Hogs
      • Perry Hogs
      • Reynolds Hog
      • Iron Hogs
      • Stoddard Hogs
      • Newton Hogs
      • Phelps Hogs
      • St. Francois Hogs
      • Shannon Hogs
      • Carter Hogs
      • Ripley Hogs
      • Oregon Hogs
      • Texas Hogs
      • Butler Hogs
      • Pulaski Hogs
      • Crawford Hogs
      • Dent Hogs
      • Laclede Hogs
      • Barry Hogs
      • Stone Hogs
      • Taney Hogs
      • McDonald Hogs
      • Cape Girardeau Hogs
      • Johnson Hog
      • Washington Hog
      • Dade Hog
      • Wright Hog
    • Missouri Elk
    • Horntagger's Radio Show
    • Horntagger Outdoor Columns
    • Horntagger Outdoor Travel >
      • Aruba
      • Wyoming
      • Charleston South Carolina
      • Horntagger's Key's Florida 2015
      • Horntagger Outdoor Travel Missouri
      • Horntagger Outdoor Travel Illinois
      • Horntagger Outdoor Travel Massachusetts
      • Horntagger Outdoor Travel Arizona
      • Horntagger Outdoor Travel Alabama
  • Business Imagery Consultant
    • 1860 Trapper Pack Project
  • Outdoor Shows and Events
    • NATIONAL TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
    • Eastern Ozark Rendezvous 2018
    • NWTFSHOW2018
    • NWTFSHOW2017
    • #DeerCon17
    • QDMA 2016 Convention
    • NWTF2016
    • Predator Management Program
    • 2012 Outdoor Shows and Events
  • Outdoor Product Development
  • Wildlife and Habitat Improvement
    • QDMA Deer Steward 1 Branson Missouri
    • QDMA Deer Steward 2 LaGrange KY
    • QDMA Deer Steward III - Bogart GA
    • Wildlife Management Plan
  • Hunter Selfie
  • Small Landowner

Like North American Wildlife & Habitat on Facebook

QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION 17th NATIONAL CONVENTION
&
Louisiana Expo
#DeerCon17

Picture
QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
17th NATIONAL CONVENTION

&
Louisiana Expo
By: Allen “horntagger” Morris

How did you deer season go? Do you want to get more out of your land? Do you practice land management for your wildlife? Wanting to know more about whitetail deer management?

Well here is what you missed at the QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONVENTION in New Orleans, Louisiana on July 20th thru 23rd.

Best thing about the seminars these are professional land managers, and the who, who’s of the top deer biologist in the country.
There were some great seminars this year – Habitat, Deer and GROUND BREAKING HOG RESEARCH.

Just few of the seminars I listened in on.

Poor Soils mean poor nutrition for deer, right? Wrong! - Dr. Craig Harper, University of Tennessee who I consider the top person in the country on food for whitetails.
​
Great seminar dealing with limiting factors.

Under pressure: exploring deer behaviors in response to hunting activity. Dr. Gino J. D’Angelo is an assistant professor of deer ecology and management in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at University of Georgia.
 
Great research on how whitetail want to and will return to home range and use it to their benefit and safety.

Nature or Nurture? - A comparison of nutrition versus genetics on long-term impacts to body and antler size of white-tailed deer populations. Dr. Bronson Strickland is the Extension Wildlife Specialist at Mississippi State University, co-director of the MSU Deer Lab, a certified wildlife biologist and a QDMA member
 
Something I have long believed that the genetics are their they just need to be turned on.
 
Be A QDM Architect: How to design the perfect hunting property from the foundation up Matt Dye of Virginia owns and operates Land & Legacy LLC and Adam Keith of Missouri is the co-founder of Land & Legacy LLC.

Things I have long told my clients, if you can’t access your property what’s the point.

Combining benefits of food plots and early succession management for deer Dr. Craig Harper, University of Tennessee who I consider the top person in the country on food for whitetails.

Talking about succession vs regeneration and knowing the difference.

This section is for the MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION and LAND OWNERS with hog problems – If you don’t get involved in his research you are FOOLS!! This is ground breaking and a real game changer to eliminate not control wild hogs.

Battling Feral Swine - Where we have been and Where We are headed

Dr. Glen Gentry of Louisiana is an associate professor of animal reproduction at the LSU AgCenter. He is currently the coordinator of Bob R. Jones Idlewild Research Station and a member of the scientific advisory board for the Bob R. Jones Wildlife Research Institute. His research program focuses on improving assisted reproductive technologies in relevant domestic and exotic species, evaluating environmental impacts of livestock operations and the development of a toxic bait and delivery system for feral swine.

One main thing they have learned in this research is that Feral Pigs prefer Dehydrated Carp over Whole Shell Corn so it is very possible that the Asian carp are a voracious and destructive invasive species threatening the survival of native fishes and the health of America's waterways can be used to eliminate the wild hogs another destructive invasive species that threatening the survival of native wildlife and health of its habitat.

If you want to see the Majority of this Seminar go to North American Wildlife and Habitat facebook video down below Battling Feral Pigs and click on video. Share this video with Missouri Department of Conservation get them involved in this to stop the feral pig in Missouri NOW!

Is Facebook Killing Deer Hunting? Will Brantley of Kentucky is the hunting editor of Field & Stream magazine.

Even more seminars could have been attended.

I have been a member of the Quality Deer Management Association for the past 15 years. Seminars have had a direct influence on my property, from the design, management and planting for the past 10 years. They also have a direct influence on my customer and clients when showing them hunting properties. These are the QDMA conventions I have attended in the past and I have learned information that sometimes is in research state and does not come out to the public for years.

2006 - 6th QDMA National Convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
2007 - 7th QDMA National Convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee
2008 - 8th QDMA National Convention in Chattanooga, Tennessee
2009 - 9th QDMA National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky 
2011 - 11th QDMA National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee
2012 - 12th QDMA National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee
2016 – 16th QDMA National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky
2017 – 17th QDMA National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana

NEW THIS YEAR.

Something new for me this year was attend the Louisiana Expo which was going on at the same time.
Here are just a few of the things that caught my eye I will review over the next several weeks.

X-Stands Tree Stands one of the best stands on the market,

Handle it All deer drag tons of uses and tons easier on your body,

Judge Clines No. 9 Sauce smell so good I had to buy some,

Vertical Gun Racks great way to store your guns,

Species Specific Feeder – This is the most innovated product I have ever seen,

Deer View Window Company a great product if you want to build your own deer and turkey blinds,

Anubis Tactical Supply – Great head lamps
​

SAVE THE DATE

July 19th thru the 22nd 2018 – QDMA 30th Anniversary in New Orleans, Louisiana #DeerCon18 

The Drive in - Not in Missouri anymore Bambi

Just a sampling of what you missed out on if you did not make to the QDMA National Convention 2017

Seminars and Speakers at the 2017 QDMA Convetion

Watch Video of Battling the Feral Pig

​The must have book of our era.

X-Stands Tree Stands one of the best stands on the market
https://x-stand.com/
​
X-Stands on Facebook

Handle it All deer drag tons of uses and tons easier on your body,
https://www.deerdrag.com/
​
Deer Drag on Facebook

​Check out the Video below on the Deer Drag

Judge Clines No. 9 Sauce smell so good I had to buy some
https://legallysauced.com/
Legally Sauced on Facebook

Vertical Gun Racks great way to store your guns,
http://www.verticalgunracks.com/
Vertical Gun Racks on Facebook

Species Specific Feeder – This is the most innovated product I have ever seen
http://www.wildlife-m-s.com/
Wildlife Management Service on Facebook


Deer View Window Company a great product if you want to build your own deer and turkey blinds,
http://deerviewwindows.com/
​
Deer View Windows on Facebook

Anubis Tactical Supply – Great head lamps
https://www.anubistacticalsupply.com
​Anubis Tactical Supply on Facebook

Here is some of the awesome taxidermy on display

Also here something for duck hunters or deep swamp deer hunter and trappers.

SAVE THE DATE
​July 19th thru the 22nd 2018 – QDMA 30th Anniversary in New Orleans, Louisiana #DeerCon18 

Proudly powered by Weebly