Originally Posted by
Windwalker7
This is what I mean about talking out both sides of your mouth. You said,
"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."
So why issue all the doe tags? If the land can't support a large deer herd, then there shouldn't be any growth in the deer population to worry about.
In other words, if there wasn't enough food, the deer would starve out. If the CC of the land were exceeded, deer would start starving or move to other areas.
My arguement is, there is enough food or the population wouldn't be able to grow at all.
Because it takes less deer to continually impact poor habitat.These areas will never be timbered,which is a shameThe only way they;re ever going to get any improvements to the habitat is to reduce the herd to an extremely low density and keep it there for a long time.They want the forest to recover in those areas but they can't ever timber it.One OF THE ONLY THINGS THEY CAN DO IS KEEP THE HERD DOWN TO RIDICULOUSLY LOW DENSITIES.I don't like but we can thank the treehuggers for that.
THERE ISN'T ENOUGH FOOD FOR MORE DEER IF THE HABITAT ISN'T RECOVERING.