Sure you can see for a long ways from those vistas. What you can't see from those vistas, is the patchwork of roads. There's plenty.

Acknowledged that there are roads, farms and people out across those vast areas. There are also large tracts that probably don't get much hunting pressure, either. How many hunters now walk several miles in one day, during deer seasons?

There's a 600 acre+ parcel down the valley from my camp, that's now owned as a "hunting club" and has been for years. All posted since it stopped being a working farm and hunted by no more than a half dozen guys (if that), during firearms deer. Most of them are gone by the first Wednesday, maybe two or three stay until Saturday. Even with ATVs, gotta wonder how much territory a few guys cover in less than a week? Especially if most of them tend to sit in tree stands much of the time, which they do.

All things considered, don't think most of the more remote areas up there see much pressure, especially after the first few days. One guy walking miles, is only seeing a very small part of the picture. And there aren't "hundreds" of guys doing it at the same time, after the first few days.

What is now 208 always "had deer". My relatives hunted Long Run back in the 30s and 40s, because that's where most of the deer were back then. Few deer to found up in the farming country north of Rt. 49 then, which is why traditionally, Long Run was the place to be.