Now that the deer in 2G have nearly twice as much food/deer as they did before, fawn recruitment should have increased dramatically over the past few years.
Their is no evidence to support your theory that there is twice as much food in 2G as before. We could resonably expect that there would be
some better quantities of forage but assuming twice as much is not realistic.
fawn mortality due to poor nutrition and low birth rates seem a far more plausible theory in light of the doe and fawn mortality studies showing both the higher fawn mortality experienced in Quehanna and also to te low apparent mortality in both due to hunting.
The part we didn'tlearn aboutfawn mortality from the study is how many were lost before even being detected and captured by thefawn study crews. fawns dying within the first24-48 hours of life were not addressed in the study. The study started with captured live fawns and monitired mortality after that.