Originally Posted by
Windwalker7
I'm a little confused!
To hear you and RSB talk, you say that the land can't support high DD. Yet you worry about the deer herd growing on SFL.
You guys talk out both sides of your mouth. First you two say, the land can't support high DD then it won't have high DD.
How will a deer herd grow if habitat is so bad?
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.
The answer is very simple.Once the habitat gets degraded to the point is in many places,it takes very few deer to keep it that way or make it even worse.Most of these areas will never have high deer densities again,even with no doe hunting unless we have several mild winters and good mast crops.Still,unless the heard is kept very low,the habitat will never start to recover.That sucks but that's what happens when you have too many deer for too long.