ORIGINAL: bluebird2
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.
Limited hunter access in 2B prevents hunters from harvesting enough doe to control the herd. AS a result the herd increases or remains stable at much higher densities than in 2G,which allows hunters to have a high sustainable harvest rate that is much higher than in 2G,where high doe harvests reduced the herd.
Abosutely the correct and only answer. I seen the tag numbers and the areas in general. There is no other reason.
How many deer was harvested from that area? They are trying like hell to lower the deer herd in the metro areas and are giving out outrages number of tags. Now the areas that have these large doe tags given out,Are these the areas that allow baiting of deer to draw the animals off of posted areas?
That was for the south eastern part of the state near philly.
Maybe this year they will promote this to the south western part of the state.
One more thing to ask, How in the world can the deer herd survive if the land wasn't posted when 59,000 tags was given out each year for how many years? No way does food supply have anything to do with it. It does not add up one bit. It is because of the limited acces as bluebird said.