While baiting for bear in August the last two years, I've noticed a noticible decrease in the amount of deer in the general vacinity of the bait site. Trail Cameras rarely picked up deer sightings until after the bear were harvested and the baiting was over. I'm getting 5-6 pictures per day now where before I'd be luck to get that many in a week. In years when I wasn't baiting for bear, 5-6 deer were captured on the camerapretty consistantly since this area has cover food plots and was heavily browsed throughout August up until the freeze in NW Wisconsin.

So my observations are the deer shy away from an area that bear are frequenting. When the bear leave, the deer return in typical numbers usually within about 1 week.

Gerry