ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Therefore, the forests that are providing today’s forest resources got established before there were high deer populations or in many cases even low deer populations that could prevent them from regenerating.
That is today’s forest/wildlife history lesson.
You must be confused , because that was actually the joke of the day, not a history lesson.
According to DCNR a mature northern hardwood is 80-100 years old ,which is why they harvest 1%/yr. That means the 100 yr/ old oak that is cut today was a seedling in 1928 ,when there was so many deer the PGC closed buck season and only allowed the harvest of antlerless deer.
It isn’t me who is confused. What you are proving is that you either have no idea what you are talking about or are simply once again trying to mislead people not smart enough to know better. But, then that is your usual method of operation isn’t it?
Even though it takes 80-100 years to grow a mature forest that certainly doesn’t mean the mature trees all falls down at the end of that 100 years if they aren’t harvested. Our forests, in most of this state, are more then that 80-100 years old mark. The problem is that cutting all of the trees that are mature at one time would put us right back to the level of forest and wildlife management ignorance that occurred the last time they did. Another part of the problem has been, and still is in many areas, that when they do cut the present mature forest an over abundant deer herd hasn’t allowed new trees to regenerate to replace the past forest. That too is a stupid situation and only an equally stupid, or seriously misguided, person would what that to problem to continue into the future.
R.S. Bodenhorn