Wildlife Habitat Improvement in Lauderdale County, MS 🦃🌾
ROW Planting for Better Food, Cover & Huntability
Improving wildlife habitat doesn’t always require big acreage; sometimes it’s as simple as planting your right-of-ways and internal road systems with the right blend of food and native vegetation. In Lauderdale County, we’ve been enhancing ROWs to create year-round forage, better brood habitat, and more usable space for deer, turkey, and small game. 🌱🌿
Linear openings act like wildlife highways, and when planted correctly, they become high-value edges: tender green forbs, clover, small grains, and native grasses that pull in everything from whitetails to spring gobblers. The results speak for themselves—these turkeys were feeding calmly along a freshly improved ROW this morning, using it exactly how it’s designed to work. 🦃🔥
ROW planting boosts:
• Food Availability – cool-season greens + warm-season diversity
• Travel Corridors – predictable movement for deer & turkey
• Brood Habitat – insects, structure & low competition
• Timberland Value – better access + stronger wildlife appeal
Whether you’re managing for income, wildlife, or both, strategic ROW planting is one of the highest-ROI improvements a landowner can make.
🌲 Southeast Forestlands LLC
#TheTimberlandMan | Lauderdale County, MS
