Originally Posted by
bluebird2
Since you didn't like the good news from the 40s , I am sure you will like the horrible news from 1953.
“Hunters fought these ‘doe’ seasons, by petition and abrogation, until it
was too late. As a result, not only is high-yield deer hunting on its way
out, but in the meantime we have sacrificed our grouse, cottontail and
snowshoe hare hunting." -- Roger Latham, 2/53 P
Great names to bring up, if I recall RSB told you about this place.
Last Sunday, spring sprouts were everywhere at Latham's Acre, one of a series of cyclone-fence islands erected nearly 60 years ago on a McKean County mountaintop at North America's east-west continental divide. The fenced "deer exclosures" were built in 1950 by Roger Latham, a biologist and head researcher for the Pennsylvania Game Commission before he became the outdoors editor of the former Pittsburgh Press.
Latham died in a mountain accident in the Alps in 1979, but each spring the sprouts return to Latham's Acre, demonstrating the level of forest regeneration possible in the absence of overbrowsing deer.