Land Stewardship Services
At Outdoor Solutions we offer a wide variety of skills – this enables us to provide our clients with excellent service whether your project is large or small. Take a look through our list of services and see how we may be the perfect fit for your needs.
Management Plans
Consulting
At OS we are here to assist you in helping transform your property into the property of your dreams. If there is a service we cannot provide, we can connect you with a network of professionals that can help you reach your goals and objectives for your property.
Management Plans
Whether you would like to use your land for recreation, or gaining additional income, OS will carefully inspect your property and put together a specific detailed plan to help you get the most of your property.
GPS Mapping
Let us assist you in accurately mapping your property, marking unique natural features, timber stands, plants, wildlife, and trail systems.
Cost Share & Land Assistance Programs
At OS, we can assist you with finding a cost sharing program that can help with funding to manage the overall health of your land.
Environmental
Habitat Restoration
Having a thriving ecosystem and healthy habitat is important to the wildlife and birds that call your property home. We can assist you with reclaiming overgrown areas and restore the original habitat so that you and the wildlife around you can enjoy it for years to come.
Invasive Species Control
Invasive plants and trees are notorious for taking over and killing off native flora and outcompeting for resources. This directly affects the overall health, well being and wildlife populations of your property. Whether it be Buckthorn, Multi-Flora Rose, Garlic Mustard or numerous other invasives, we are here to help manage and restore your land to its full potential.
Native Grasses & Management
Native grasses on your property offer wonderful bedding habitat for many species of birds and wildlife. Grassy areas can be used to break up your plot and also provides great erosion control with their dense root systems.
Native Landscaping
Whether you are landscaping the entrance to your home or cabin, or laying out your property for recreation or hunting, we can assist you in getting the most out of your investment by designing a natural yet inviting entry to your space.
Pollinator Mixes
At OS we value the importance of pollen producing plants and flowers. Not only does this draw native birds, bees and butterflies to feed and pollinate, but also enhances the beauty of your landscape at the same time.
Tree & Plant Identification
We can help with plant and tree identification. It is important to know what species currently grow on your property. Having this knowledge can help in deciding what species to introduce, or cull, to promote the health of the land and wildlife.
Wildlife
Food Plot Design & Implementation
Food plots are a great tool to grow and hold wildlife on your property for observation or hunting. By knowing what specific wildlife species look for and prefer in forage and shelter, we can design a layout that leads to long-term inhabitation. Proper design can produce a healthy population of deer and turkey along with many other animals.
Food Plot Maintenance
Food plot maintenance is often overlooked, but this step is just as important as the design, layout and planting. We can assist with a plan for mowing clover and alfalfa plots to promote young, desirable, palatable food for your wildlife. With the implementation of fertilizers and lime, you can have beautiful and lush plots for years to come.
Water Features
Having a source of water on your property is imperative to the health of the birds and wildlife that call your property home. Having a small pond, water hole, or watering tank will draw and keep animals on your ground, creating gathering points and social areas for all forms of wildlife.
Strategic Hunting Stand & Camera Placement
Placing tree stands and blinds according to wind direction for different season types, wildlife travel patterns and outside influences are imperative for your success. Trail camera placement and monitoring is helpful to your overall success when setting up your property for hunting. This can reveal and identify what animals inhabit your property and who is using specific travel corridors. You can get some great quality photos with properly placed cameras and set-up.
Wildlife Preferred Tree Plantings
Having the right trees on your property that the wildlife prefer is of great importance. A mix of hard and soft mast trees is most beneficial. Whether it is apple trees, plum, persimmon, oak or hickory, it is important to have what wildlife prefer on your property, rather than the adjoining landowners property to ensure your success.
Hinge Cutting
Hinge cutting of trees can create travel corridors as well as providing bedding and nesting areas for the wildlife living on your land.
Visual Barriers/Access Points
Having visual barriers in place on your property can give you the advantage of being able to access stands and blinds, as well as being able to access certain parts of your property for wildlife viewing without disturbing the wildlife you are hoping to encounter. Food plot screens, tall grasses and pine tree plantings are a few ways to minimize the intrusion.
Forestry Mowing
Whether mowing shooting lanes, browse areas, secondary roads, or wildlife travel areas, forestry mowing is a great way to open up those areas of your property (and manage invasive species!).
Road & Trail Installation
Being able to access and travel around your property is very valuable, whether on foot or in a vehicle. We can build access roads throughout your land. Trail systems for tree stand access, wildlife viewing, timber assessments and monitoring your property can be very useful.
Herbicide Application
We are Certified by the State of Wisconsin for Herbicide Application. We offer a wide variety of application services and methods. Spraying food plots, invasive species management, herbaceous weed control are just a few of the things we can do.
Forestry
Want to gain revenue or promote your property for wildlife, or both? We can assist you to get the most out of your forest.
Timber Stand Improvement
By promoting growth, improving your current forest, or removing undesirable tree competition, Timber Stand Improvement is a great way to increase the overall health of your forest and release the desirable trees.
Invasive Species Control
Buckthorn, Multi-Flora Rose, and Honeysuckle, as well as many other invasives, can compromise the health of your forest. Treatment with herbicide, controlled burning, mowing, or hand-pulling are great ways to improve the overall health of the forest.
Tree Planting
Do you have an old agricultural field that has overgrown, or a CPR program that has expired? Tree plantings are a great way to provide a new and renewable resource on your land. Tree depth, placement and spacing is important to a grove’s success. Wildlife and birds alike benefit from these tree planting.
Herbaceous Weed Control
A necessary tool to control competition within your newly planted areas of seedlings, mowing and/or herbicides can be used to control these weed invaders.
Forestry Mowing
Forestry mowing is an efficient and environmentally friendly way of managing your property. Making secondary trails, fire breaks, shooting lanes, and removing unwanted vegetation are several goals in forestry mowing.
