Originally Posted by
DougE
Alot of habitat can't support more than 10 dpsm without further damage to the habitat.That a fact that can't be disputed.We wouldn't be in the mess we are today if we didn't have way too mnay deer for as long as we did.
That's simply not true. When regeneration is limited by factors other than deer, the area can support a lot more deer than 10 DPSM. If that wasn't true the herd would never have increased to 1.6M deer ,because the habitat wouldn't have supported that many deer.
There absolutely,positively were severe problems with the habitat that are univerally accepted by every expert out there.None of that was manufatured.
The funny thing is man created the problems with the habitat , not the deer. Man stripped the state of trees which resulted in uncontrolled forest fires,severe erosion and an even aged forest. Man stocked deer and allowed the herd to increase while the carrying capacity was decreasing. Now man wants the forests to stay the same as it was for the last 50 years even though mother nature prefers shade tolerant trees with less commercial value.