Originally Posted by
bluebird2
If you do ,you will be banned for name calling.
Have you ever tried to apply your theories on the effects of stress on real world situations like VF and Getttysburg. The deer in those areas are severely over populated and have severely over browsed habitat yet they continue to survive and increase the population. Can you explain why stress isn't limiting the population and why the bucks aren't dropping dead from the stress of breeding all those doe?
bluebird I cant speak for VF. but Gettysburg is one of my favorite places on earth (even if deer never lived there) and I have spent countless hours/days since I was 16 year old glassing, filming and shed hunting the battle field over the years and I can tell you without a doubt that the herd is stressed (or was prior to the sharpshooters) and their is only 2 reasons that the herd kept increasing in population over the years. 1st was the abscense of predators including hunters and the 2nd reason is the miles of fertile farmland, orchards and hardwood ridges. In my opinion the Gettysburg area is/was as perfect as it gets in regards to deer habitat prior to the over population problems. Pike