That looks promising.

I guess it would be too hard to figure out which trail to set up on a ways back from the lick??

Hunting right on it, if you get busted once, I wonder if that will end its use right there?

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SO,do you think its man made…i wounder if there is natural made salt licks…IF so what kind of ground produces salt…john

Not to sound like some expert, but I would guess it is natural. When I lived in Montana in the 80’s, they published how they lost millions of acres of land to mineral salts rising to the surface and making the land unusable forever– like the Romans did with seawater.

There are natural salts in the earth strata there, and when they’d get more rain than usual, and the water table rose at all, it leeched up the minerals from below to the surface where they dried and made the land a mess.

On the High Line, they created Freeze Out Lake system. A series of very deep “holes” (ponds) with a canal system that regulated the aquifer to keep the salts from leeching upward. They bought “salt marsh grass” from New Jersey and planted all around… (we call it saw grass cause the leaves will rip your skin). It became a natural attractor for all sorts of water fowl— and muskrats! They would destroy the canals and ponds so there was a “permit draw” for trapping the muskrats.

That’s when I learned about the salts leeching up and creating natural salt areas…

While the proximity to the road makes me wonder a bit, I’ve seen plenty of naturally-occurring features like that before. It could have started as a natural deposit, or it could have started with people putting out salt licks a while back, that eventually seeped into the soil. Either way, over time it gets trampled and torn up, and can be hard to say for sure (unless you still see remnants of a salt block…). But natural salt/mineral deposits are not an uncommon thing, particularly in a lot of western soils.