What component of "the browse line thing" are you referring to and whatseems not to beacceptable?

I have a pic taken severalyears ago during spring gobbler season,near my camp in Tioga Co. There is a large ridge-top hayfield that has woods on two sides of it. One tree line runs downhill for several hundred yards and that is what I took the pic of, from the far side of the field (200+ yards distant). Once the treeshave developed leaves each spring, it's clearly noticeable that the treeline along the fieldhas beencropped in a perfectly uniform line, about 6' from the ground for its entire length (probably 350-400 yards).

Very few hunters recognize it as a browse line when shown the pic, although it stands out like a sore thumb.Some have asked "WTH trimmed those trees like that in such a straight line?"I can remember when it wasn't as noticeable, maybe 25-30 years ago when local deer numbers were much smaller. Tree growth is more prounced where there is sun along the edges,hence that's where the most growth is for browse chow.I walk upthere every spring and it always looks about the same, or has for the previous 20 years. Some browse lines are harder to spot...this one isn't.

My woods are well-populated with sugar maple, cherry, beech and other species of small seedlings each year. Prior tothe deer population increasing in the mid-80s, these seedlingswereusually waist high by mid-summer, in the woodsunderstory. For many years thought,they'd been cropped off by springtime.They are just now starting to reach theirformer heights in summer, indicating the deer are less in numbers than before.

During my adulthood there has always been a canopy in those woods, whichare primarily mature sugarmaple, beech, hickory, basswoodand other tall trees. About the only variable over the past 35 years,on how high/thick the seedlings were by summer, has been the numbers ofdeer nibblin' on them in late winter/early spring.