ORIGINAL: DougE

I have walked miles and miles of transect lines on both public and prinately managed property doing browse impact surveys for the past several years.I'm very well trained on recognizing the effects of browsing and on identifying what the deer are specifically browsing on and what they aren't.My brother's property is overbrowsed,plain and simple.My brother's property is surrounded by several hundred acres of private land.Some has very restricted access and some has no access because the land is owned by anti-hunters.On an average year,I bet there's less than 3 deer taken from the 500 acres or so that surrounds his property.Five years ago,it was nothing to count well over a hundred deer in the fields in front of his house once the corn got cut.