ORIGINAL: sproulman
ORIGINAL: DougE
Jim,deer should have to depend on a mast crop.Mast crops are not dependable and they're a food source that's only available for a limited amount oftime in the fall.Deer need browse and that browse is severly lacking from decades of overbrowsing.
Losthorn,we have less deer in the northcentral part of the state because the habitat is so poor.That's a fact.
It's also a fact that counies such as potter and Tioga still had increasing herds up until about 2001.
douge,
wrong
Where in the world did they come up with less deer herds because of habitat? Seriously, Do they make that crap up?
Where is there proof before they started the HR program?
The HR program reduced the deer herds so they can't increase in size and now are shrinking because of the doe allocation tags that has not declined to let the deer numbers gain but only decline each year. You watch and see,This year will be the worse deer harvest in PA history.