RE: Depleted PA deer populations
First off, I own and farm a large farm in Westmoreland County, haven't lived in NJ for about 6 years....
Second can't eat timber.. and as far as I can tell timber is not soy, corn, or any other food source...
I have not done any real investigation but it makes sense that they use that as there are few producing farms of the aforementioned....If the word is too big sorry...Timber would be the poorest provider of food for animals so that would make total sense as few farms equals less food...
I was born and raised in PA and realized that there were too many California thinkin individuals there.. So, I really do not interact with them...I hate to pay my taxes every season only to have some redneck who can't spell license slip on my place and claim he can not read the big yellow sign....I did my time in the service and now I would like to see some good hunting here on my farm... If not it really doesn't matter as I can translate sub-division even for you so I can purchase a chunk of property to have somewhere else in a deer state...