Knuckles, the following sentences paragraphs follow your "no winter loss sentence" It too is from the PGC website. Not the next word you chose to cut things short at is HOWEVER. DD methinks you be decietful. The passage follows:

However, it is apparent that deer in many areas are limiting vegetative growth, causing nuisance and damage problems, and impacting the health and vitality of wildlife dependent on early successional forests. We will continue to carefully monitor and evaluate vegetation and deer health to determine whether deer are having an adverse impact on the landscape and the habitat.

What does the Game Commission mean when it says “deer are impacting the habitat” and why is that important to me?

Deer are dependent on plants, and to understand deer impacts on their habitat, you must look at not only what is available today, but what also will be available tomorrow, next year and for decades to come. For example, the food in your house – in the cupboard, refrigerator and freezer – is a lot more than you and your family need for one day. If you prepared all the food in your house on one day, you could feed a lot more than just your family for a very short time. After that, you would need to go to the grocery store to buy more food. For deer living on millions of acres of land, the food supply must last them not just a few days or weeks, but year after year. History and science have proven that it takes several years of low deer population levels to replenish a forest that is overbrowsed. To put it simply, several decades ago, we allowed the deer herd to stay very high in northcentral Pennsylvania, and now, many of those northern forests have poor habitat conditions. They lack the plant diversity, quality and quantity that provide seasonal foods for deer throughout the year. Restoring the habitat is the only way to spur a comeback, and that can be accomplished only through keeping deer at levels many hunters find undesirable.
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