ORIGINAL: bluebird2
It is very obvious that nature and the deer in both areas disagree with your perspective of how many deer can be supported long term.
If either area could support more deer the numbers wouldn’t have been I a state of decline.
That is pure unadulterated nonsense. In 2000 2g supported 15 OWD PSM and now it supports less than 10 OWD PSM simply because harvests exceeded recruitment. At the same time the unhunted herd in VF is at over 200 DPSM even though the habitat is overbrowsed to a much greater degree than in 2g. If hunting was banned in 2g the herd would increase to over 40DPSM with the existing habitat and it still wouldn't be at the MSY carrying capacity.
is there a study done on habitat in wmu2g that says that it can hold over 12 dpsm.
you stated 40 dpsm it can hold.
right now we are at about 4 deer dpsm in clinton, i feel from feeder checks and my trailcamera counts .
if habitat or study says that we can hold more than 12 dpsm,then the PGC should be bringing the deer to that level.