>Id hardly call less than 25 owdpsm and declining "high density",
I would. That's 25 deer per square mile of WMU left over after hunting season.
Thing is those square miles include roads, parking lots, houses, rivers, ponds, plowed up fields etc.
This WMU(2A) is 60% forested. So what we are really talking about is 42 deer per square mile of forest, ie winter deer habitat left over after hunting season.
The harvest last year in 2A was aroud 20 deer for every square mile of forest.
The pre-season deer density per square mile of forest in 2A last year was over 60.
Only in PA would 60 deer per squre mile of forest be considered a tragedy.
Cornball wants his over 100 deer per square mile back so that hunting can be like fishing at a hatchery.
WV Gino