I do have the book and it's great when hunting the hills, but more commonly, I hunt very flat flood prone riverbottoms.
I now use the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) shading option in Caltopo and can do 3' elevation increments. For me, 20' in this area is completely useless - 3' determines if I need my hip boots, chest waders, or canoe.
This little amount of change is also indicative of ground that produces gum tress vs oak trees. This, combined w/google earth pro historical imagery is what is use in the river bottoms.
Would you be willing to share your DEM layer saved settings?I do have the book and it's great when hunting the hills, but more commonly, I hunt very flat flood prone riverbottoms.
I now use the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) shading option in Caltopo and can do 3' elevation increments. For me, 20' in this area is completely useless - 3' determines if I need my hip boots, chest waders, or canoe.
This little amount of change is also indicative of ground that produces gum tress vs oak trees. This, combined w/google earth pro historical imagery is what is use in the river bottoms.
I'm not super familiar with flat land, but I do know that even very slight relief in topography will funnel deer. It's probably more important to notice the subtle rolls in flat land. Like Red mentioned vegetative transitions are probably more important in super flat land. I used to hunt a field on my buddies property, it had an almost negligible swale going down the middle, but you could almost bet the farm that when deer crossed that field they'd be in that swale. It would just about hide they're legs when they crossed. You could probably hide an infantry company in there, and I doubt it barely shows up on a topo map.I bought that book years ago and sold it diddnt help very flat where i live
Any insight on what to look for in flat country on maps?
That was mostly helpful, I'll PM you later.Here is the link to my post on this topic. Let me know any specific questions from here. Still happy to visit anytime or provide additional guidance.
Here's Mine ...What's Yours? [Mapping Process]
UPDATE: April 8 - A few weeks ago I took an out-of-state trip alone to turkey hunt. I cyber scouted roughly 7.5k acres not knowing where pressure would be. I found it valuable to overlay the Forrest Visitor Map (OnX Layer) during my cyber scouting process. While tedious, I traced out all the...saddlehunter.com
Is the book called Mapping Trophy Whitetails or Mapping Trophy bucks? I type in Mapping Trophy Whitetails and Mapping Trophy Bucks pops up.
Here you go.
That’s the book I mentioned. The best scouting book ever. Now if only google would add its content to the earth program we hunters would be set.
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You can add topo maps as layers in GE.