at times, a deer track is as elusive as cougar track on SGL land

I thought every one knew cougars went south for the winter.

You guys cutting any browse over there? Since I started cutting maple a couple fo weeks ago the number ofdeer at my feeders is really down,they love those maple buds.

they wont let us do it on SFL anymore.

i bent a few smalltrees down and tie them with a string, they nibble tops off a little.then i cut strings in spring and let tree pop back up.

So who prevents habitat improvements on state forest? What sense does that make,its like weeding a garden,if you want quality you have to pull the weeds,
Cutting soft maple in the winter is a win - win,it feeds deer at their hardest time of year and opens the canopy so sun light reaches the forest floor so desirable trees can grow.

EGGZACKLY!!! My hearts too screwed up these days to simply go way back but there's still lots of opportunity for those who think about it, plan for it and work their plan.

where is wayback

In the case I was talking about I found an old well road that had been abandoned years ago, itcircled around the back side of a very steep hill side. Two bucks in 4 hours.

Where did you come up with that BS?

At this point I don’t k now if you are just seriously confused about what was posted and by whom, if you dream things and think they are reality, have reached serious senility, or if you are nothing more then a malicious liar.

What I do know is that I never challenged anyone about deer being restocked in this state. I have know for many decades that the deer were almost no existent by the end of the eighteen hundreds and that deer were brought in and stocked in this state. In fact I have seen the pictures of those deer being stocked and even have some of the data on how many in the various counties.

I also know that would never challenge a person over temperature changes from area to another. I see major temperature changes all the time right here in this area. I can drive from the bottom to the top of the mountain and see not only a major temperature change but go from no snow to several inches of snow. There are time when I can look out my windows and see bare ground all around and by simply looking across the valley at the facing mountain side and see the snow line half way up the mountain. I have driven on dry roads and headed up that mountain and within five minutes have driven into road conditions that had traffic at a stand still due to snow and ice.

If you can find where I made the comments you claim I did how about you copy and pasting them over for all to see. You can’t do that though because such comments don’t exist. Perhaps your dad didn’t teach to be as honorable as you claim but in my effort to give you the benefit of the doubt, I will concede that perhaps you really are just becoming extremely confused in your senior years.

R.S. Bodenhorn

Wayback is easy to find! Just follow the deer tracks! When you find deer tracks that are still full, you've found wayback

If the breeding rate in your area increased by over 13 % , can you explain why there weren't similar increases in the other 21 WMU?Why didn't the statewide average increase by 4 or 5% rather than decreasing by 5%?
Since the deer in 2G have twice as much food/deer than they had 10 years ago, why is the reproductive rate only .64 when the statewide average is around .99 fawns/adult doe?