ORIGINAL: R.S.B.
ORIGINAL: explorer_Jack
By using scientific results provided by real deer and real food supplies you are using reality instead of estimates, guesses and theories.
How many real deer do you have?
No body knows. Do you know?
There are some rather reliable estimates, but it really doesn’t matter if anyone knows how many there are. The deer and their food tell the professionals, monitoring what the deer and food supply tell them, as far is if that area can feed that number of deer, more deer or if there will have to be fewer deer.
The number of deer that can live on the food supply is determined by nature not the Game Commission. All the professions do is their best to keep that balance, at what nature allows, by using hunters instead of nature to remove the deer nature will not allow to survive in a healthy condition through the winter and into the long term future.
Would it be better to have them die each winter to feed the buzzards when they return each spring? Do you like the looks of the sun bleached bones from winter killed deer in the spring?
R.S. Bodenhorn
I know there is atleast 10 times less deer than there was 8 years ago.
I know you have no idea what youare talking about when you say.
"There are some rather reliable estimates, but it really doesn’t matter if anyone knows how many there are. The deer and their food tell the professionals, monitoring what the deer and food supply tell them, as far is if that area can feed that number of deer, more deer or if there will have to be fewer deer. "
I also know that you been around animals to long and becomming an anti from your view of animals and about nature being cruel and you can't handle it any more. So you think it is better for us to interfere with nature to save the cruelity from nature.
I would like to see these bone piles you talk about as one walks thru the woods. From your description, No one can walk thru the woods in spring without seeing bones of dead deer that starved to death scattered all across our state.
Mother nature has been doing a good job of taking care of herself. If you can't handle to see what she does,Which I think you over exagerated quite abit beyond belief. Then I advise you to just quit your job and join up with the antis and get it over with.
Atleast the predators would be feeding on the dead and not the live ones that might be pregnant as you would like to see I am sure.
How about this question?
Explain why 2F is being managed at 22 DPSM and 2G is managed at 12 PS DPSM when the forest health is poorer in 2F than in 2G based on regeneration? What PGC criteria justifies that descrepency?