Thank you, and good luck with yours too. I'm hesitant to post specific location informationanymore on my place because I've found out that locals to my property that I believemay betrespassing have been following my posts here on HNI. I will say if you draw a line between Elmira, NY, and Williamsport, PA........I'm between those two.

I'm somewhat familiar with your area, I used to live in Wellsboro and know the further west you go it tends to turn into big woods with a LOT of mature timber.....i.e. no browse. My spot has a higher carrying capacity than your place and is MUCH more agricultural. My property falls in the middle of a 600 acre patch of woods that is in the middle of a 50,000+ acre valley full of corn/alfalfa.

I do believe in areas such as yours the first step is drastic habitat improvement.......heck some 10+ acre clearcuts in those big woods areas would be a great first step and then a few years of little to no harvest would help tremendously. Unfortunately you folks in that part of PA are probably feeling the most pain from the now massive WMU's. Once this happens and after a few years hopefully the herd can recover it's probably going to come back out of balance with many more does than bucks, and then you could implement a similar program to what I did.

I do understand that focusing on the does is not the first step or key ingredient everywhere, but when your seeing densities of 15+ deer per square mile and know that there is a 1/5+ buck/doe ratio (fawns removed from the equation) it's definitely going to help things IMHO. It's helped us, I know that for sure.