ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Shame on you R.S.B! How did you miss the other significant info posted by BB? It clearly shows total support for the present day deer management plan. Particularly from 1931 to 1950.I'm pretty sure our deer herd was smaller then. Ah!, less deer, more food, better quality deer. Just like today!
Obviously you don't know squat about the history of our herd. The deer densities were much higher during that period than they are today.
Whatis obvious that don’t know squat about the history of the deer or the habitat that supported thosedeer in the northern tier back in those better years.
Much of the habitat across the northern was still in the seedling sapling stage into the mid 1940s. The same as the deer numbers and harvests in those northern tier areas didn’t start to decline until the habitat declined.
You can also see how the antler quality started to decline after the habitat declined. By the end of the 1950 both deer numbers and antler quality were headed into a major slump.
It appears both are finally starting to improve after nearly half a century of trying to carry way too many deer. Even the deer are proving that point and proving just how wrong you are.
R.S. Bodenhorn