EHD in E. Central Illinois, what have you heard?
A couple of my buddies have come across a couple of really nice dead bucks in Clark Co. and another in Cumberland Co. Is EHD back for a second year? What's the word? I don't think E. Central Illinois can tolerate another bad year of EHD, what used to be a great place to hunt is going to take a min. of 4 years in order to recover, I don't think we could handle another year equal to 2012.. The taxidermists in the area can testify how bad it has been. Just wondering what people have been seeing? DNR just released numbers for this year and we are down considerably to last year, I don't know if its from not seeing deer, or because the numbers of hunters are not there. Non-resident hunter/permits are on the decline due to the poor quality of the Illinois deer herd, word has traveled fast! Who's going to want to spend the kind of money non-residents do, not to see deer...