Originally Posted by
DougE
Last year I killed 6 dmap doe in 2G and this year I plan on taking at least that many.The herd has increased in every area where I hunt and the habitat was just just starting to recover from years of way too many deer.Last year I saw 2 other hunters during rifle season.I have no issues and feel no guilt shooting does where the habitat is poor or just starting to recover.
As I said before , you are benefiting from the fact that the low deer numbers and reduced doe tags drove a lot of hunters from 2G, just like it did at KQDC
And ,BTW the PGC says the forest health in 2G decreases from 42% in 2004 to 38% in 2008. That is not an indication of recovering forest habitat.