When you carry too many deer in that condition, they will gather in heavy concentrations in wintering areas and malnutrition and disease from close contact will emerge. That is not a very good life for a deer IMO.
Would you please identify the disease that inflicted our deer when we had 1.3M deer in just 30 counties in the 1930's? What disease inflicted our herd when we had 40 DPSM in the NC counties during the 70s?
What disease inflicted our deer when we had 1.6m PS deer in 2001?
Just what is this mysterious deer that inflicts our deer . IMHO it is called antlerless deer harvests which is caused by the antlerless deer allocations. Do you have a better more informed answer?