Originally Posted by
bluebird2
While much of what you say is true, it doesn't refute the fact that a forest of beech, birch and striped maple can support 40 DPSM at the MSY CC, even though you claim the habitat stinks ,from your perspective.
From your perspective the habitat in TL also stinks but it still supports over 60 DPSM and it is still below the MSY CC of the habitat.
TL lake does not support over 60 dpsm.Our pellet counts have gone from over 70 dpsm to under 50 dpsm with relatively low deer harvests.Tl is unique in that the deer have 1700-1800 homes with lanscaping that gets replaced every year.On top of that,hundreds of acres have been timbered which provided more food than usual over the past several winters.When you walk through an area that was recently timbered and find zero preferred saplings,zero stump sprouts surviving and over 60% of the beech being moderately to severly browsed,you have a severe habitat problem.That's what we're faced with and the beech and striped maple are not helping the deer herd or any other wildlife for that matter.
I used to belong to a large lease that didn't allow doe hunting.As the lease was logged,it regenerated mainly in beech and striped maple.Despite the fact that no doe are allowed to be harvested on the 3100 acres,there's not alot of deer.