ORIGINAL: fellas2
Hard winters of 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 in Greene County ??? Not to my recollection.In fact,I can't remember the last hard winter we had there.
It's hard to remember the last time it snowed there and lasted for more than a couple of days.Deer manage to survive in states with 10 times worse winters than we have in PA so I don't think you can blame the winters in SW PA for that.
What kind of misrepresentation scam are you trying to pull with that post?
No where in my recent post, that you are responding to, did I say anything about hard winters in Greene County. I know Greene County isn’t normally affected by winter snows. Since the set of data was statewide and the other data for Elk County I don’t know how you could have equated the data to having anything of any significance to do with anything in Greene County.
But, since you frequently bring up Greene County I looked up the data for Greene County and unit 2A, where Greene County is located, and I simply don’t see one thing about the harvests in Greene County or unit 2A that indicate any major reduction in the deer population.
Over the past five years unit 2A has had the second highest antler less deer harvests per square mile in the entire state and the highest buck harvests per square mile in the state. That certainly doesn’t support all of or any of the yammering around being done about poor hunting or low deer numbers in Greene County.
All that is occurring in Greene County, and unit 2A, is good deer management that is working to maintain a deer harvest that safeguards the deer food supply in the unit so you can always have good deer numbers. It is presently working too. But, if the deer management were left topeople like you the habitat and deer numbers there would soon be nearly as bad as it is in parts of the northern tier.
R.S. Bodenhorn