White Pine is a one-man hunting property service. I do the off-season work you don't have time for — scouting, camera runs, brush work, stand removal — and hand you the intel. You show up in November and hunt.
Great hunting properties don't get better with a skid steer running through them in September. They get better with somebody who moves through quiet, pays attention, and writes down what he sees.
Everything I do is on foot with hand tools — the same way you'd want to move through your own ground during the season. Low pressure, wind-conscious, no torn-up trails, no diesel smell hanging in your bedding areas.
You deal with me directly, start to finish. The guy who walks your property is the guy who answers your texts.
Photos, notes, and sign logged and sent to you. You always know what's happening on your ground.
Visits timed and routed to keep human scent and disturbance off your best spots when it matters.
Scouting delivered as annotated onX waypoints — bedding, sign, entry routes, stand notes. Yours to keep.
If your property doesn't need something, I'll tell you. I'd rather keep your business ten seasons than pad one invoice.
Everything on this list I do personally, on foot, with hand tools. Quoted per property after a walkthrough.
Boots-on-the-ground scouting through the year: bedding, travel routes, rubs, scrapes, food, pressure. Delivered as a written report plus a shared onX layer with every pin annotated — what it is and how to hunt it.
Core serviceBatteries, SD card pulls, repositioning, and cell-cam setup and management. I run your camera route on a schedule and send you a digest of the activity worth seeing — so you're patterning deer, not swapping batteries.
Core serviceAccess trails opened and maintained, shooting lanes trimmed, blowdowns cut back — chainsaw and hand-tool work, done with your entry and exit routes and the prevailing wind in mind.
Hand toolsThat rotted ladder stand from two owners ago, the collapsed blind in the fencerow — taken down, hauled out, and gone. One less liability hanging in your woods.
Haul-off includedThe final pass before opener: entry routes cleared and marked, lanes touched up, cameras pulled off pressure-sensitive spots, and an updated pin package with notes on how to hunt each sit based on the year's intel.
Book by summerWalkthroughs while you're away: gates, posted signs, trespass sign, storm damage, anything off. Photos to your phone same day. If something's wrong on your ground, you hear it from me first.
On requestWe walk your property together — or I walk it alone if your schedule's the whole reason you're calling. I map your stands, cameras, access, and sign, and listen to how you want the place to hunt.
You get a simple written plan: what I recommend, when I'd do it, and what it costs. Take all of it, some of it, or just the one job you called about. No contracts you need a lawyer for.
Through the year you get reports and camera digests. Come fall, your lanes are cut, your cameras have done their work, and your pins are dropped. Your only job is to be in the tree at first light.
Home base is Hudsonville in Ottawa County. I regularly work anywhere on the west side of Michigan's Lower Peninsula — from the state line up the lakeshore. Farther afield, mileage gets built into the quote and we make it work.
Got ground east of US-131 or up past Traverse? Ask anyway. Good properties are worth the drive.
Every property is different, so everything is quoted after the walkthrough. These are the three shapes it usually takes.
Fair warning: I'm one guy, and fall calendars fill up. Removal jobs and lane cutting book out fastest — if you want it done before October, reach out in summer.
Send the basics and I'll get back to you within a couple days to set up a walkthrough. No pressure, no contract — just a walk in your woods and a straight answer about what it needs.