Originally Posted by
bluebird2
I don't refuse to see the damage the deer have done. I just place it in it's proper context and consider all the other factors involved.
You place no balance in your demand for more deer for you to see while your neighbor whom makes a living farming is quite happy with the deer plan.
If anyone wants the habitat produced by zero deer, then they should fence their woods and keep out the deer. it is just like your solution of buying land to offset the effects of the PGC's HR.
No one has suggested "no deer" Latham's acre shows the difference between none and the varying numbers we have had over the last 60 years.
Thee is no doubt that deer can contribute to the lack of understory in the seedling and sapling stage. But the limiting factor in pole and saw timber stands is the lack of sunlight due to a closed canopy. If you don't believe me check out the understory in a DCNR exclosure after 10 years.
Once again go to Latham's acre and you will see that PA used to have plants that grew with little or no sunlight, like grouse they are a thing of the past.