ORIGINAL: J Pike
RSB. Can you provide a link that states that OH. only has 14.7 DPSM?
If that is true than PA. has far less than 14.7 DPSM!!
Maybe bluebird can help me out here and run the numbers, OH. had a 2008 pre season deer herd of around 760,000 whitetails.
Also lets stop trying to spin the #'s. The fact of the matter is 450,000 OH. deer hunters harvested only around 70,000 deer less than 900,000 + PA. deer hunters did in 2008, and in case you didnt know the state of OH. is smaller in size than the state of PA.!! If you are trying to claim that PA. has anywhere close to the same DPSM on avg. as OH. your fibbing or just like Gino trying to comment on a subject that you have NO clue about. Pike
I got it from this link from the Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife.
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/9/pdf/pub087.pdf
And this newspaper article which also explains how Ohio is actively trying to reduce their deer population to even lower numbers of deer.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/insight/stories/2007/04/01/deer_in_ohio.ART_ART_04-01-07_B1_6S67V6J.html
And, this newspaper article concerning last year’s deer population estimate and harvest numbers.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/12/09/deerhunt.ART_ART_12-09-08_B1_19C66LC.html?sid=101
The comparatively low deer population in Ohio, as compared to Pennsylvania, is undoubtedly due to the fact that Ohio has more industrial and city areas that are covered with pavement then what occurs in Pennsylvania.
Ohio probably has a higher deer population per square mile of DEER HABITAT then Pennsylvania, but only because they have better soils that grow better food being combined with the fact that they have always harvested a higher percentage of their deer each year to protect the deer food supply. Of course all of the farm crops in Ohio undoubtedly helps keep there deer numbers higher, in the areas that have deer, too.
Pennsylvania has far more land mass that supports deer then what Ohio has, though much of the Pennsylvania deer range is steep mountainous land with rocky outcroppings where no deer food grows so naturally fewer deer can be supported per square mile as compared to the rich and lush farm land soils of Ohio.
R.S. Bodenhorn