ORIGINAL: WestVirginiaBrent
Does the PGC/DCNR/Etc.. manage the public hunting land well? As in timber some of it out, create new browse, maybe even control burn a few spots, anything? Are the public lands where people are complaining about mostly hardwoods?
yes,that is what is happening.
we used to have a lot of oaks, now we have a lot of MAPLES.
maples shade ground and very little grows under them.
trees have become the place money is made ,not deer.
dcnr says the trees are not ready to cut yet, in about 75 years or so, they will be .
pgc does do a good job on gamelands on deer habitat, best in world but NO DEER.
on the stateforestland, DCNR runs that.
THEY DO NOTHING TO HELP DEER, THEY HATE DEER.