The fences were simply to get advanced regeneration past the deer.Very few were for any typr of a deer damage study.

I grew up in Wyoming county and occasionally hunt in Susquehanna county.I have a friend that owns a pile of land up there and things have changed greatly.Many of the big farms are no longer farming allowing the field to just grow up.The last time I hunted up there was about 4 years ago and truthfully,the woods were more overbrowsed and the habitat worse than what I see in the northcentral part pf the state.He has several hundred acres just outside of Montrose.He had some of it timbered a year before I was there and there was literally zero preferred regeneration.The only thing growing was beech and striped maple and it was taking over because the deer leave it alone after they wiped out anything of value.My buddy thought the habitat was great and all I could do was shake my head.Deer need high quality browse during the winter and the truth is,far too many areas don't have enough.It doesn't matter how many deer you have if you don't have sufficient feed to get them through winter.Once the habitat get's so poor,it takes far less deer to impact it and that's what much of Pa was faced with.They did exactly what needed to be done as hard of a pill that was to swallow.