For years it was reported that there were 38 deer per square wooded mile in Pa. This amazes me because they canceled the annual elk count one year because of no snow. If you can't count an animal that large without snow, how do they count deer so accurately? Remember the white outline deer kill maps? One year (I think the 80's) there was one in the Game News for crop damage kill for the year. The whole state was around 500 deer. There were that many killed by farmers in a 5 mile radius of me.