I am personally very suprised at the results. I expected deer harvests in the adirondack counties to be way, way down. I've been hunting the Indian Lake and Speculator areas, and know a few folks that have camps outside Warrensburg. We all agreed the 2008 season was tough. Deer numbers seemed to be well below levels we had seen in previous years (or so we thought), due to the very hard winter. I know that Indian Lake had 160" of snow in the 2007-2008 winter, and I saw a deer (on average) once for every 3 days in the woods. The past few seasons I was seeing deer everyday, and had little trouble filling all my tags. Also, the deer I did see were all mature, which tells me the does didn't drop too many fawns, or they didn't make it around to fall.

Everyone I talked to said the same thing - the winter put a hurting on the herd and they weren't seeing deer. I guess this was a localized experience?