I was at a state park in the SE Ohio this weekend. When were setting up camp a ranger came by and said that we should hunt somewhere else because there are no dear here any more, we thought he was crazy. The next morning when we are comming out of the woods, we run into a group of police offers doing some training, and they asked how we did. We told them that we didn't see anything, and they asked if we had done any scouting, which we also said we didn't, but last year at the same time we saw 50 deer in a weekend so we thought we would come back. One guy then said that he had scouted the area pretty well and haven't seen any deer (we started to believe the ranger.) Another cop chimed in that he thinks the ODNR is covering up how bad the EHD actually is, and that in his mind it wiped out the herd in that area. He also said that he hear rumors that ODNR was thinking about cancelling gun season. I ran into the ranger later that day and asked if the DNR is talking about cancelling gun season and he confirmed that they are talking about it.

All I know is that this year we saw two in the woods and two eating grass on the side of the road, and in the same time period last year we saw 50 deer and had a couple shot opportunities.

Any one else heard anything like this?