And Charlie and a local Beaufort County Boy Scout troop placed 20 bluebird boxes, which have produced over 100 young Eastern Bluebirds. Skeet also erected a Purple Martin condominium by the large fish pond near the cabin, taking advantage of the birds' voracious appetite for mosquitoes. A drive or hike around the plantation is a wonderful visual and recreational experience. The forests, wildlife plantings, buffer zones, firebreaks, roads and trails, ponds and wetlands, have all been created with irregular boundaries and broad curves, avoiding straight lines and rows wherever possible. In the pines, modern thinning techniques are used to eliminate the artificiality of plantation rows, creating an overall mosaic of different shapes, ages, sizes, and types of forests, interspersed with a variety of wildlife habitats and food plots, and different types of wetlands and ponds.
Hunters welcome .
His wildlife management practices have been so outstanding and are producing such quality hunting that he has people queuing up across the Southeast for the opportunity to obtain a lease. It is certainly a testimonial to the incentives that spring from ownership and family to create a vision for the future and your children and through hard work and enlightened stewardship, to pass the land on to future generations in better condition than you acquired it. Recognition for the Burris family's exemplary stewardship was quick to come. In 1989, three years after purchasing the land, Skeet had it under a written Forest Management Plan. The barns on the land had been left to decay as were the few trees that remained.