I just don't understand this.[:'(] We had been told, by Dr Alt and DNCR, that the deer are eating themselves out of their homes, and that drastic herd reductions are needed to "save" our forests. They point to fenced-in plots where the protected growth is thicker than outside the fence. I have seen their fenced in areas (Sullivan County) and they clear-cut them first. By clear-cutting, you are removing the forest canopy, which then allows sunlight to reach the forest floor, necessary for new growth. This is important as anyone knows, clear-cuts, in a few years, are game magnets, providing forage and cover for deer, turkey and grouse. Now I see an article in Sunday's Allentown Morning Call in which biologists are lamenting the downward spiral of the ruffed grouse, putting the blame on PA's maturing forests preventing new growth, which provides etc, etc. Nowhere in the article was over-browsing by deer given as the problem for lack of undergrowth. [>:]