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I saw on the other site you put the FLIR study on an aerial veiw which is really neat.Can you put that on the Clearfield area?

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Which area in particular?
I'll get it tomorrow.

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He wants to see Moshannon state forest.Me too please.

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I was looking for 305 T but if you can do 18 and 312 in the Mosh St forest also Doug and me would appreciate it.
Thanks

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Deer Information:


1,421 deer


8.63 deer / sq. mile
Habitat Condition: Very Poor
The image below is an infrared aerial photograph of the landscape, with the deer survey data superimposed on top of it. It is not the imagery obtained from the survey flights. The deer survey flight footage was interpreted, the deer locations were plotted, and the results were added to the image below, along with state forest and flight area boundaries.
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Located in western Clinton County and northeastern Centre County, this area is 140,542 acres (219.6 square miles), and falls within WMU 2G. Of this, 105,345 acres, or 164.6 square miles were surveyed. A 25,895 acre area was included in the DMAP program in 2004 as DMAP Area number 704. While some parts of this area are very remote and inaccessible, others are highly perforated by natural gas development in the form of well sites and access roads. The survey, completed on April 11, 2005, detected 1421 deer at an area-wide minimum density of 8.63 deer per square mile.
The entire area was divided into 3 separate blocks. The minimum deer density of the eastern block was 10.38 deer per square mile, 6.91 for the central block, and 6.74 for the western block.
This area is one of the Game Commission's Doe Mortality study areas, and was the study area for the Hunter Movement Study. Approximately 70 deer will be radio-tracked on the area, and should provide a valuable opportunity to compare seasonal movements of deer to these survey results. This will also be one of the Forest Restoration Research Areas, where deer browsing effects on the forest ecosystem will be intensively monitored and analyzed.
Additional analyses are planned for these data from this large area to test the potential for using FLIR to sample larger areas, instead of the complete census technique used in this survey. The data from this survey will be modeled at various sampling intensities to determine if some lower level of effort can provide useable estimates of deer densities.

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Thanks for the info lost horn.Good stuff

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Wow, that's cool! Can you do that in Stueben County, Ny also. Erwin Lindley area?

Lisa

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Welcome :D I don't think that NY. has the FLIR yet but I found that this is something that NY does that I like.

2002 Bowhunter Sighting Log Reports
More information from this division:
Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources[/align]Wildlife Home Page[/align]2001 Bowhunter Sighting Log Reports
2002 Report - (124K, pdf)[/align]

Detailed Tables by WMU[/align]2002 Bucks[/align]2002 Does & Fawns[/align]2002 Total deer[/align]2002 Turkey[/align]
For help with the PDF(s)
on this page call (518)402-8924[/align][hr]

Bowhunters who are cooperators in the sighting log keep a diary of their bowhunting activities and the number of animals of several species that they see from their stand. These logs are summarized and a sighting index, which consists of the number of sightings per 1,000 hours, is calculated for each species by Wildlife Management Unit (WMU). The results from 2002 are available in both a Statewide Report and detailed tables for selected species by Wildlife Management Unit.
The detailed tables, accessible from the link box above, include the following information for each WMU:
[ul][*]The number of hunters participating in the log[*]The number of individual animals they saw while on stand[*]The sighting index for that species, or sex and age group, consisting of the number of sightings per 1,000 hours[*]The upper and lower 80% confidence limits on that sighting index [/ul]
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Thanks germain, that's one thing that the DCNR does good is makeing maps. ;) I like this one to.

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On one hand it shows the areas to hunt.On the other hand it's a waste of time to hunt deer in 99% of this area.This shows that hunters need to find other spots but if they do it's gonna get crowded.

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I thinkthe mapwould only be helpful if you were going to hunt in the same time period as the survey. It'd be interesting to see a monthly survey of the same area over a year. I'd especially love to see the results a day or two before rifle season and then some time in the second week of rifle. I think it would tell us a lot!

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Thanks Todd.

Germain,the areas with the least amount of deer are standing in areas with absolutely no understory except some mountain laurel.Just drive on RT 322 from the top of the mountain past Mitch's restarant.You can see forever through those woods.I imagine alot of deer did get killed in that area during the beginning of the herd reduction efforts.There's very few places for the deer to hide until they get way back in and hit all the mountain laurel.

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Thank-you T.

I agree Doug.There's no cover and the woods are wide open in those areas.

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fyi, this is the SW corner of SGL 13.