ORIGINAL: DougE
Easy BT.The habitat was so degraded in 2G,that it took very few deer to continue impacting it.Many places,especially 2g needed alot less deer than the MSY.You have shown nothing to prove that the forest certification had anything to do with statewide herd reductions.Once again,thecertified forests are such a small percentage of Pa that they had no impact on the total plan.You need to get off your back 40 and seeexactly how much impact the deer had in many vast areas of 2G.the state forests are being managed at a much lower dd than the game lands which proves that forest certification had nothing to do with staewide herd reduction.
Rich,there's no doubt that the public land near urban areas have probably taken a beating.Where do those deer go when the shooting starts?
IN people's freezers.
Places like perry county in the tusc state forest has little private land within.A few places on the outer edges might have posted land but that depends on how much the landowners nail them.
The populations got so low in one section of the tusc state forest they took it out of demap.You know the numbers gotta be low for the dcnr to make that move.
We hunted grouse there a few years back in the second season.Loads of acorns still on the ground yet very little if any deer sign.Some guy told me the acorns weren't getting eaten cause worms were in the acorns.I said yeah right.There weren't any deer that's why.
Maybe since the area was taken out of dmap the herd increased alittle.Can't say I wouldn't go anywhere near that place for deer.