Originally Posted by
Screamin Steel
You're missing the point, here, Doug. regeneration ONLY takes off when you eliminate the deer ENTIRELY from the equation. Not in real world scenarios (outside the exclosures.). Are you reccomending they kill every deer in the state to achieve their forest goals? That's the only way your magical regeneration formula works. You keep raving about this magical regeneration in the absence of deer, yet the PGC data shows very miniscule improvements within WMU's, and in some cases regression. Obviously they aren't seeing all the wonderful improvements in 4D and 2G that you are claiming where the herd was reduced.
I'm not missing any point.The exclosures prove that it's not the soil,insects,competing vegitation or acid rain that's limiting the regeneration.It's the freakin deer.Thyat's what happens when you only remove one variable.Now as far as DCNR's exclosures go,almost every that I've ever walked had deer in them so your zero deer scenarion is moot.