Ephrata Junior Ag
Club Cuts Browse
In Tioga County
by Charles Ackley
Vo-Ag Instructor,
Ephrata High School
Ten members of the Ephrata
Junior High Agriculture Club
earned a trip to Tioga County to
cut browse for deer. This is part
of a wildlife management ex
perience planned as an annual
club activity
The boys selected to represent
the club were Scott Bartsch,
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Jesse Brubaker, Gerald Good,
Daniel Hollinger, Clair Martin,
Vernon Martin, Jay Oberholtzer,
David Reiff, Richard Strauss and
John Zimmerman.
The group left Ephrata on
Friday, January 19, and traveled
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Tioga County Gamelands Manager David to right, John Zimmerman, Jesse Brubaker,
Brown, left, talked about wildlife Gerald Goode, Richard Strauss, David
management to the Ephrata Junior Ag Reiff, Scott Bartsch, Vernon Martin, Clair
Club on their recent annual browse cutting Martin, Daniel Hollinger and Jay
trip. Boys representing the club were, left Oberholtzer.
cooking according to planned
committee assignments.
Prior cooking and dishwashing
experience was an asset for some
of the boys. In addition to the
routine chores, their busy
schedule was filled with a variety
of experiences.
The highlight was continuing
their browse cutting project in
Game Lands No. 37 near Hills
Creek State Park. The boys cut
about two acres of browse
starting at 7:00 a m. and quitting
at 2.30 p.m Saturday. They took
time out for lunch and a game
lands management field trip
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conducted by Tioga County Game
Lands Manager David Brown
Friday evening was spent
getting settled and visiting the
Raymond Butler farm at RDI
Morris Mr Butler was named
outstanding Pennsylvania Young
Farmer in 1969 and has two sons
who are active FFA members at
Liberty High School
Late Saturday afternoon was
spent visiting the Pennsylvania
Lumber Museum and Model
Logging Camp near Coudersport
The group also visited Denton
Hill Ski Slope State Park and
observed some skiing and snow
making c Saturday evening they
made a short stop at Harrison
State Park to view the Penn
sylvania Grand Canyon by
moonlight They also visited and
toured a gas well drilling
operation between Morris and
Wellsboro.
Sunday the group visited an
active beaver dam, went to
church, and stopped at Little
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Pine State Park near Waterville
The dam at Little Pine featured
ice fishing and ice skating on 10”
thick ice on a beautiful afternoon
The club returned to Ephrata by
5 00 p m Sunday, January 21
Weather conditions were very
good A few snow flurries on
Saturday and plenty of sunshine
on Sunday
During the tour with Mr Brown
he reported that cutting trees at
the proper time will provide deer
with about 1500 pounds of new
twig growth for browse feeding of
deer
Late last winter after the deep
snows arrived, the deer fed
heavily on the browse that the
group had cut last year Wildlife
feed trees such as apple, witch
hazel, June berry, and grape
vines were not cut
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