First of all the article is over 25 years old and a lot has changed in that time. I have seen areas that still looked pretty good in the late 1980’s turn into wildlife deserts, due to excessive deer browsing, following the decline in antler less allocations and low harvests that prevailed in these same areas throughout the 1990’s.

Anyone who doesn’t realize that conditions changed over the past twenty-five years simply isn’t being observant, realistic or objective.

Bryce Hall, the author of that article, is still the Game Commission Forester for those same areas, but I assure you he has an entirely different message about the conditions of the clear-cuts, and the habitat in general,in the years since that article was written.

If you want to hear what he has to say about the habitat conditions of both the pastand today come to our next deer/habitat management tour to be held on May 31.

R.S. Bodenhorn