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Trinity Basin Ranching, Hunting, and Fishin'
At Its Finest!
 July 16, 2007 Volume 8 Issue 6

 

Flooding Hits Reed Family Ranch!

Ranch Area Rainfall!

OlJim Competes in Longview AlleyFest 5K!

White-tailed Deer Census Surveys Scheduled to Begin on Reed Family Ranch!

More Ranch Photos and Such!

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Bluebonnet Time on The Reed Ranch!
Trinity River Catfishin'!
Swamp rabbit trapped by the flood waters!

 

 

      

Flooding Hits Reed Family Ranch Bottomlands!

The rains just keeps a'fallin'! Continuous days of rainfall have produced flooding conditions in the bottomlands of the Reed Family Ranch.

Hey, take a look at these photo's of what the conditions look like when the north and south pastures are flooded. Over the past few days, the water has been higher than what's shown in these photos'. A 47' flood stage has been recorded this month! Yikes!

Ranch flood stages and Trinity River gages - as reported by U.S Geological Survey data - can be checked out by clicking on the below link.

Reed Ranch Flood Stage Gage at Trinidad

Ranch Area Rainfall!

Water is VERY Important Stuff to a Ranch!

The month of June recorded a total of 7.8"of rainfall. This gives us 34.8" for the year, which is about 14.1" ahead of the game for the year (as of the end of June'07). Here's some totals for 2007 - and some historical overall averages, too!:



Monthly Accumulation Yearly Accumulaton Historical Averages
Jan'07 - 7.3" Jan'07 - 7.3" January - 2.5"
Feb'07 - 0.9" Jan'07-Feb'07 - 8.2" January-February 5.6"
Mar'07 - 11.9" Jan'07-Mar'07 - 20.1" January-March 8.9"
Apr'07 - 1.0" Jan'07-Apr'07 - 21.1" January-April 12.3"
May'07 - 5.9" Jan'07-May'07 - 27.0" January-May 17.3"
Jun'07 - 7.8" Jan'07-Jun'07 - 34.8" January-June 20.7"
    January-July 22.9"
    January-August 25.3"
    January-September 28.3"
    January-October 32.6"
    January-November 35.9"
    January-December 39.5"

Here are the totals for the most recent 8 years of ranch area rainfall. Our annual average is about 39.5 inches.

1999 - 26.7"
2000 - 46.0"
2001 - 42.7"
2002 - 38.0"
2003 - 27.4"
2004 - 54.2"
2005 - 24.6"
2006 - 29.0"

OlJim Competes In Longview AlleyFest 5K!

OlJim did his best to compete in the most recent running of the Longview AlleyFest 5K held during the first weekend in June.

Those fast East Texas runners showed him a thing or two - and shut him out of taking any of the medal places!

White-tailed Deer Census Surveys Scheduled to Begin in July on Reed Family Ranch!

It's again time to take our annual deer counts (scheduled to last roughly from the mid-part of July through the end of August).

Current plans are to do three night counts (the results of which will be used to estimate deer density) and enough day counts to view about 200-225 deer. The results of the day counts will be used to estimate buck/doe - and doe/fawn - ratio's.

The Ranch will use this figures to determine the numbers of doe and mature buck to be taken during the deer season - to keep the white-tailed deer population in line with carrying capacity and enjoy some great hunting!.

This past season was a banner season and we're hoping for an even better hunting in 2007-08!

It won't be long now til opening day comes rolling around again. The white-tailed deer season (both gun and bow) begins on the Reed Family Ranch at the end of September and lasts though the last part of January 2008!

More Ranch Photos and Such!

Shark Lake draw-down and filling of lower-level crawfish pond
OlJim shows off the monitory cage of some past year's of iron and clay cowpea food plots for white-tailed deer

We love outdoors photography and enjoy taking photos of all the happenin's at the ranch. Check out ALL of our photo albums by clicking HERE!

Trinity Basin Ranchin' - At Its Finest!

Healthy wetlands and great waterfowl habitat at the Reed Ranch! Photo taken of one of the necks of the 23 acre Bearland Lake wetland area.

We're proud to have a family managed ranch within Texas' great Trinity Basin that operates under a holistic goal. The Reed Family Ranch's holistic goal focuses on:

diversity and shared vision
learning, personal growth, and economic sustainability
enjoyment of a beautiful, peaceful setting with clean air, water, and healthy land
contribution to society and environment
and, sharing the great outdoors with others



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REED FAMILY RANCH 2007