Deer Habitat
Central mid-west deer habitat runs from open ground, to lightly wooded creek bottoms to small wood patches. This series highlights a small wood patch.
The rub on the tree where the rifle is leaning shows this to be buck country. The value to this picture for the new to the central mid-west deer hunter is the background and the deer hunting habitat it shows.
Another rub illustrating buck presence, the value of the photo is the cover habitat in the background. This wood patch is connected by a lightly wooded dry drainage that can just be made out as the ditch towards the background.
When the common colloquialism of river bottom deer hunting is stated this is what is being described.