ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
ORIGINAL: bluebird2
You truly are amazingly ignorant. even after the dramatic herd reduction in 2g ,it still took a harvest of 11,700 deer by hunters just to keep the herd stable. Even the village idiot would recognize that the harvest by hunters is controlling the herd, that is ,except for BTB and RSB.
Oh wow you will really prove your point with that information! NOT!!
That was a deer harvest of a whole 2.84 deer per square mile being harvested with a whole 1.24 of those being antler less deer harvested per square mile.
That is the lowest harvest per square mile in the state with the second lowest was nearly twice as high at 5.03 deer harvested per square mile. Perhaps we should compare that to the unit that is made up largely of the city and streets of Pittsburgh where hunters harvested 14.46 deer per square mile and 11.23 per square mile of those were antler less deer, nearly ten times as many antler less as were harvested in unit 2G.
Explain to everyone how hunters can continuously harvest over 14 deer per square mile, year after year, around the city streets of Pittsburgh but the big woods unit of 2G can’t sustain harvests of more then 3 deer per square mile.
According to Bluebird it couldn’t be habitat related though so it must be that the deer in Pittsburgh have well over four fawns for every one the 2G does have and all of those Pittsburgh fawns must survive after being born too.
R.S. Bodenhorn
Well my predator thread got hijacked for the time being. I am curious of that also of the above. You got the Pittsburgh WMU and number of tags sold for that WMU and the harvest numbers? I do know alot of the Pittsburgh area is private and posted land and unhuntable do to city limits.