Originally Posted by
DougE
Treasure lake is 14 square miles in size.Hunting is only allowed on a little more than 3 square miles of it.When we do the pelet counts,we do it over the entire property.Furthermore,the 50 dpsm is an overwinter deer density,not a pre season density.If we have 50 dpsm,that would equate to over 700 over winter deer.Asume we have an adult b/d ratio of 1/2.That would mean we have around 450 adult doe .If each doe only recruited 1 fawn,we would have to hill over 450 deer to keep the population stable.Killing 142 doe isn't even scratching the surface of recruitment even though recruitment is pizz poor.
Regardless of the rest of the acreage, where controlling the deer will probably not hapen through hunting due to the restrictions and the residences....a third of your overall landmass DD was just reduced by 80%! Good luck trying to control the der in the rest of it,but it seems like hunting is plenty effective where it can be done safely.