Screamin Steel

Regeneration that in "some people's" opinions we need more of. In any event, HR was predicated based upon DD significantly higher than 25, and mostly limited to the worst cases of overbrowsing, using those studies as merit for reducing the herd statewide, without evaluating the management needs of individual WMU's (or counties at the time). I have the DF on record stating how good the habitat and deer were doing in Michaux SF in 1999 and 2000....stating precisely in contrast to the overbrowsed forests of the NC...yet HR came and swept like a blanket over that region, the PGC even being as bold as to suggest DD goals of 5-6 dpsm, before retracting that goal, when met with hunter outrage at the absurdity of such a low mangement goal. Now, the herd is a fraction of what it was here, and the forests are the same as they were before. The DCNR ranger I spoke with at Big Flat in flintlock season admitted that regeneration here is doing very well, and he admitted that the current level of HR was probably unwarranted in that region. Big help that is now. "Some people" wanted way less deer. "Some people" got their way.