Aerial Photos and Topographic Maps
We provide state drawn road maps for members to find our lease land locations. Members will use those road maps to navigate on their own favorite aerial photograph and topographical map web site to draw down their own photos and maps.
One suggested free aerial photo web site is Microsoft Terra Server.
A good source of topographical maps is MyTopo.com.
An example of central midwest agricultural deer and turkey hunting lease land within the regional 45-55% land use in farming. In the case of this farm a 320 acre, 1x1/2 mile tract the approximate east half is bottom ground of compartmental crop fields separated by the main drainage and its tributaries. The light color crop fields are alfalfa and grass hay with the gray fields in row or gain crop. In this part of the state milo is a common gain crop on non irrigated fields. The approximate west half of this farm is upland ground in hay and pasture.
The north-south road on the west is a blacktop the one on the east is a gravel country road. The road bordering the north of the property running east-west is a mud road impassible during wet weather. Running north-south through the center of the lease is a railroad embankment. The southern property line is a 4 strand barbwire fence.Scenes on this farm.
Kansas Rio Grande Turkey from a distance at 2 PM just west of the north-south running abandoned rail road bed in the center of the farm.
A more panoramic picture from the creek line looking west to where the turkey picture above was taken. A hay field that was partially baled last year. The turkeys are dead center in this hay field picture of the tree shown in the far ground. The turkey picture above this one is zoomed in on this picture.
The main branch of the creek running through this lease from south to north is short boot crossable during dry periods and far too deep for chest waders after even what may seem to be the least amount of rain. Several small tributaries to this creek are typically short boot crossable.
Milo was the grain crop on this farm this season the pictures were taken.
One of the alfalfa fields in April. Alfalfa while appearing to be great deer forage is brown and loses its succulent nature after the first hard fall frost. With early hard frost occurring within our region any time in October the early season archery hunter finds an alfalfa field to be an advantage. In terms of a food plot, it is not as many big woods deer hunters desire. A central mid-west farm field can be into the hundreds of acres. Unlike a 1/2 ace food pot in a big woods state that concentrates deer behavior, central mid-west food sources diffuse deer patterns simply due tot he large size or area covered by the available food source.Before sunrise twilight picture of three Kansas Rio Grande Turkeys strutting in competition with each other slowly moving toward our decoy and call set up.