Originally Posted by
DougE
Ok,that's why they couldn't get acceptable regeneration without having to fence practically every timber sale.The level of denial you possess is so unreal that it's actually scary.
That only applied to oak stands in the NC counties. During the period from 1980 to 2000 thousands of acres were harvested on private land a virtually none of it was fenced by it still regenerated. Furthermore, after 80 years of over browsing we still have a lot more forested acres than we did in 1940,which means there was a whole lot of regeneration going on at much high deer densities than we have today and DCNR is still fencing their oak cuts.