Originally Posted by
Windwalker7
I'm a little confused!
So why are you worried about DD getting out of control in bad habitat on SFL? According to you guys it can't happen.
If deer can't find enough to eat, they won't be there.
Yes that sounds true.
Why worry about DD ,if the forest or land can't support them?
They will move on and not be there, if there is no food for them to be had.
If you quit thinning the heard,they will have to adapt and start eating the junk browse of maples now wouldn't they?
It seems like you are letting them eat all the oaks by thinning the heard out so the maples and junk trees as been said has a chance to overwelm the forest.
The deer are not touching the maples because they don't have to and are eating the hardwoods.
Sounds counter productive to me.
Pa will be all maples if you don't let the deer population grow to help thin the maples and junk trees.
You are actually doing more harm to hardwoods than you think by thinning the deer population.
They do not have to eat any other plants other than hardwoods because there is no competition for food with less deer and no reason for the deer to search out other foods as in maples.