Originally Posted by
rockport
The big cause of EHD is drought. Its a virus is spread by little gnats(called a midge) in stagnant water holes and is killed off every year by the freeze assuming you live in a climate that freezes.....I don't know what happens if you don't get cold weather.
Drought concentrates deer into around stagnant water where these little gnats thrive...It can happen to any size herd. Of course the more deer you have the more it will kill but other than that its about the population of these gnats not the population of deer.
Interesting. I lived in Florida for a good majority of my life and I never heard of this. We did have a big die off up here about 10 years ago from cronic wasting disease, I believe that is what they called it, deer died off so bad that they sent out trucks every morning to pick up dead deer in peoples yards, the whole town stunk of dead deer. It was caused from over population. The F&G never closed or shorted the hunting season and the deer have came back strong, we have better bucks now, or so it seems. Nature has a way of cleansing and controlling the heard.