ORIGINAL: bluebird2
In this area both rabbit and pheasant populations have been improving over the past several years due to habitat improvement projects.
That is one of the funniest post you have ever made. Both 2F and 2G are 90% forested and you claim pheasant populations are improving due to habitat improvement projects. In 5C the PGC doesn't have to do anything and the pheasant habitat would still at least 10 times better than the habitat in 2F and 2G and there has been no improvement in either our pheasant or rabbit population.
BTW, have you figured out why adult doe breeding rates have dropped by at least 6%,when you claimed increased breeding rates would offset the loss of adult doe due to HR?
You obviously don’t know any more about the various habitats of this area then you know about deer management or the deer populations of the area. Of course posting about thing you know nothing about has never stopped you in the past so we certainly wouldn’t expect that to change in the future either.
The fact is that we have thousands upon thousands of acres of reclaimed strip jobs mixed in with thousands of acres of active farmland in the southern part of this county and unit 2G. All of which make excellent habitat for both rabbits and pheasant with just a little habitat work. The local Pheasants Forever Chapter has done about 300-600 acres of CREP work on the active farm lands within the unit each of the past four years. That is all on top of the crop land that isn’t put into CREP and maintained in row crops by the land owners.
Elk County also leads the entire North Central region in pheasant stocking because of all the excellent pheasant habitat combined with the fact that hunters come from all over the western half of state to hunt pheasants here. The hunters not only hunt them but find them too. I can probably check a pheasant hunter any day of the pheasant season and most likely they will have harvested or at least shot at a pheasant too.
R.S. Bodenhorn