There IS something going on with the climate, that's for sure! Heck 30 years ago when I started hunting it would be freezing with snow every year during the November deer season. In the last few years, one barely needs a heavier coat to hunt and snow has been almost non-existant in November. Did anyone notice just how green the woods still are this year? It's really amazing. The place I hunt in Delaware county would always be in peak fall colors by the 10th of October. I was up this past weekend and it was nowhere near peak and pretty much all still green. I don't know what is happening, but something surely IS! When I was a kid one would start wearing jackets in September because it had cooled off quit a bit already. Here we are this year almost into the third week of October and temperatures are well into the 70's still.

I agree that game farms are a detriment to wild herds. I don't know if they have anything to do with EHD, but it surely contributed to CWD in many parts of North America. I also just can't get over the fact that some hunters can brag about killing a deer that was bred like cattle in one of these farms. Like killing any deer, even a wild one makes someone a superman that needs to be bowed down to by the rest of us lowly folks!