ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Despite all your excuses, the regeneration in 2F is less than in 2g , yet 2F is being managed at a much higher DD than 2g. That means the herd is not being managed based on forest health or herd health,which means our current deer management plan is a sham.
You obviously don’t know how the sampled plots are laid out.
They don’t have any sample plots on the rock piles in 2G because it is perfectly obvious nothing is going to grow on them. Therefore, there are far more areas of unit 2G that are simply not suited for plants, deer or sample plots then what occur in unit 2F. Some of the areas that are suitable for sample plots are not as heavily browsed in 2G though because there are fewer deer in most areas of 2G because it will not support more deer long term.
Neither unit is ready for many more deer yet though, based on the very evidence that both the deer and their food supply are providing. If some of the habitat in 2G is slightly better then some areas of unit 2F then 2G will see a little faster deer population expansion then some areas of 2F though, again based on the evidence from those same habitat sample plots.
R.S. Bodenhorn