Originally Posted by
BTBowhunter
I'll say again that I don't know the park in question but if we assume that a park and a developed suburban area are fairly similar in having a makeup of woods, edge and grasses, maybe I can offer a possible answer. First, grasses and other plants that grow in open areas do provide far more forage per acre than timber or brushy areas and parks and suburban areas have plenty of that. The deer could be surviving on that stuff but still wiping out anything that sprouts in the woods. I havent personally seen what 200+ DPSM does but at 160+ Stevie Wonder could see the overbrowsing everywhere in our situation and the majority of the deer deer were definitely undersize for their age.
Just my $.02 based on experience with a somewhat similar situation.
This is what I keep telling Doug about the tornado areas which is now pole timber.There's fields inbetween with plenty of grasses and clover but he dismisses that as food.
Gettysburg is another example although those numbers have been reduced with sharp shooters.
Though the tornado blowdowns are pole timber there's plenty of underbrush including greenbriar.