Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Jake Hofer to discuss best practices for planning

out your year of upcoming wildlife habitat improvements.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

Brought to you by First Light and their Camel for Conservation Initiative.

And today we are continuing to kick off 2025 by looking forward into the new year

and planning out what this new year might hold.

Last week, Tony and I were kind of talking about our own personal plans.

This week on the show, I want to look forward towards things on a wildlife habitat improvement

kind of scale.

Land management, how we can improve things for our deer hunting, for the biodiversity,

for wildlife or recreation,

whatever your goals are, that's what we are exploring today.

How do we put a plan in place?

How do we prioritize our projects?

How do we choose the right things to work on?

How do we do that in an effective way?

And my guest today is someone who's really going to be able to help us do that.

This is Jake Hofer. He's the host of the Land podcast, owner of the Whitetail Master Academy. Previously, it was a host of the Exodus Trailcam Radio podcast and ran their YouTube

stuff over there and sprayed all sorts of great content in the hunting and management space.

And today he is going to share his experience, both as a landowner and habitat manager

himself, as well as being somebody who has interviewed and toured farms of and sold farms

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