>Great soil, great deer potential....one state has great hunting, one is more concerned with trying to grow trees and wildflowers.




The Ohio DNR wants to reduce the deer herd in Eastern Ohio. They have no limit to the number of doe tags unlike PA which has a fixed alllocation of tags and an Ohio hunter hunting Eastern Oh can killl twice as many doe deers as a PA hunter hunting in Western PA can. You can kill deers in OH over bait as well.


Looks like the OH DNR is even more out to screw Johnny Deerslayer than the PA GC is.



http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=3999776>

In Ohio, where reducing the deer herd is job one for the DNR's Division of Wildlife, a record 252,017 deer were killed during the 2008-09 hunting season, an increase of almost 20,000 deer over the previous year and the most since the previous record of 237,316 were harvested in 2006-2007.
"I was very pleased with the season. Hunters were encouraged to take more does and they continued to put heavy pressure on the antlerless deer," says David M. Graham, chief of the Division of Wildlife. "But work remains to lower the deer population, particularly in eastern Ohio." This, in a state that resumed legalized deer hunting in 1943, when 168 whitetails were killed in the three-county area open to hunting.



WV Gino