An abundance of preferred browse remains for deer and cattle. For example, beebrush, littleleaf sumac, catclaw, elm, oak, and hackberry are excellent browse and are plentiful everywhere. To harmonize wildlife and livestock production, brush is primarily removed from areas that will enhance grass and livestock production and is left for game cover in areas where brush control would have minimal affect on grass production. Our practices revolve around a philosophy of controlling excessive brush and not one of eliminating all brush. In areas where most brush is removed, large trees with some cover and browse remain.
Care is taken to leave brushy areas connected so that game travel is affected as little as possible.
With this design, deer for example are able to travel within pastures and between pastures without crossing open country unless they wish. Deep well water, earthen tanks, and running streams abundantly water all this ranch property. In an effort to improve and enhance the total operation, we will continue to build earth ponds and expand well water facilities where possible and when practical. Our wildlife and livestock operations must coexist in harmony for our ranching operation to be a viable entity, and we strive to make the two synergistic and complement one another. Thus, each pasture throughout the entire ranch has a very substantial grass cover and fall rains will always provide abundant forbs production.