I don't know what they are teaching you in NJ, but you might want to visit the Penna Farm Show in Harrsiburg going on right now. One in six jobs in Pa is agriculture based. And the 2nd largest income for PA is thier production of hardwood timber. Pa timber products are sold word wide. And..... pa has set aside a large number of acres of public game lands 1.4 million in addition to the states "state" owned forests 2.5 million.

It is that dependance on revenue from big timber and from the largest pa lobby the Pa Farm bureau, that has led to the recent efforts to reduce, reduce, reduce.

Sorry.... but you can't pretend pa is made up of Philly and Pittsburgh.


One fact you may not know is that in pa the PGC does not consider anything other than forested land as able to support deer. To establish thier deer density goals they do not consider farm fields, gold courses, orchards, overgrown fields, former farms, powerlines, roadsides full of vetch and clover, meadows....... as able to feed deer.

The only thing they consider to set DD goals is is FORESTED land in sapling, pole or mature timber. Our southern areas that are full of dairy farms, orchards, fields and patches of brushy suburbia have the lowest deer density goals. Look at a map, york county has a goal of 6dpsm and it is has more food, more habitat, and the richest soils.


yet the PGC dd goal in 4d with mountains and mature forest they have set at 14dpsm??????

If the PA deer team were in Wisconsin, they would not consider any farm (nothing other than forest) as habitat. And Wis would be going through major herd reductions too. Because NONE of thier farms or non forest areas would be counted or considered as able to feed deer.


Maybe I know more about habitat and deer density goas than you thought.