The most recent survey results showed that 23.9% of the state’s WMUs have such poor forest habitat regeneration they will not support more deer for more then short term periods of ideal mast and winter conditions.
That is absolutely not what the survey results show, in fact they have very little relationship to how many deer the habitat can support. The forest survey results simply show what effect the existing deer density has on the regeneration of the existing forest canopy. It has no correlation to the true MSY carrying capacity of all the habitat that the deer utilize.