Pa sportsmen groups speaks out about audit
03-11-2010, 05:41 PM
#93
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,879
Now , not only hunters are complaining ,but the non-hunting public is also complaining. The president of the club got a call from our largest landowner who said he didn't want any deer hunting on his property for the next two years because he isn't seeing any deer and they miss not seeing them. Now the club is discussing stopping doe hunting on all the properties that are open to only club members.
03-11-2010, 05:48 PM
#94
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 1,149
I know a couple that used to camp in Potter county.One of their favorite past times was taking drives on state forest roads in the evening to watch deer.They don't bother going up anymore cause it takes them a tank of gas to find a deer.
03-11-2010, 07:20 PM
#95
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Thank you for the compliment. Got it in Newfoundland. If I had the finances wouldn't mind going after another. Would really like to get a nice elk witha bow. Maybe after I hit the lottery, Megamillions or something.
You have a cool avatar there yourself. I like wildlife art.
03-12-2010, 02:34 AM
#96
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 171
little sense in trying to get DougE to admit the real world away from Treasure lake 9backed by 22,000 acre Raystown wilderness area is anything like the rest of the nc part of the state....he seems to be in a world where Lady GaGa is the norm...lost in his own little part of the state an comparing everyother part to the recently unlocked preserve.
Germain is correct when he says people don't use their camps much mainly because deer just aren't there...the camps and locla business only prosper during good deer populations and DougE can try to dispute that all he wants but the fact remains ...there just isn't enough deer left in 3A to warrant keeping a camp there for a flatlander.
DougE is also correct when he says I can open my window most days and kill a dozen doe ...this small herd is nearly all that remains in the township these days...why are they living on my property??? because I planted a 32 acre field of corn/beans for them smack in the middle of it near my house to do my utmost to save them from the meat mongers...funny how they drive past my place and drool over those doe...even stop on occasion an ask to hunt them cause they just aren't seeing doe in the Gameless land nearby.
Germain is correct when he says people don't use their camps much mainly because deer just aren't there...the camps and locla business only prosper during good deer populations and DougE can try to dispute that all he wants but the fact remains ...there just isn't enough deer left in 3A to warrant keeping a camp there for a flatlander.
DougE is also correct when he says I can open my window most days and kill a dozen doe ...this small herd is nearly all that remains in the township these days...why are they living on my property??? because I planted a 32 acre field of corn/beans for them smack in the middle of it near my house to do my utmost to save them from the meat mongers...funny how they drive past my place and drool over those doe...even stop on occasion an ask to hunt them cause they just aren't seeing doe in the Gameless land nearby.
03-12-2010, 04:30 AM
#98
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,262
I didn't bob and weave about anything.The mature timber that we have today is a direct result of massive clearcutting coupled with the fact that there were practically no deer present during that time period.Deer were stocked from other states and the population exploded because of all the early successional forest.By the 1920's that area started to turn into pole timber which drastically reduced the carrying capacity and the habitat couldn't support those large numbers of deer.
That's the exact scenario they're trying to fix today and that's why the timber is on a 100 year rotation on average.
That's the exact scenario they're trying to fix today and that's why the timber is on a 100 year rotation on average.
03-12-2010, 04:32 AM
#99
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,262
little sense in trying to get DougE to admit the real world away from Treasure lake 9backed by 22,000 acre Raystown wilderness area is anything like the rest of the nc part of the state....he seems to be in a world where Lady GaGa is the norm...lost in his own little part of the state an comparing everyother part to the recently unlocked preserve.
Germain is correct when he says people don't use their camps much mainly because deer just aren't there...the camps and locla business only prosper during good deer populations and DougE can try to dispute that all he wants but the fact remains ...there just isn't enough deer left in 3A to warrant keeping a camp there for a flatlander.
DougE is also correct when he says I can open my window most days and kill a dozen doe ...this small herd is nearly all that remains in the township these days...why are they living on my property??? because I planted a 32 acre field of corn/beans for them smack in the middle of it near my house to do my utmost to save them from the meat mongers...funny how they drive past my place and drool over those doe...even stop on occasion an ask to hunt them cause they just aren't seeing doe in the Gameless land nearby.
Germain is correct when he says people don't use their camps much mainly because deer just aren't there...the camps and locla business only prosper during good deer populations and DougE can try to dispute that all he wants but the fact remains ...there just isn't enough deer left in 3A to warrant keeping a camp there for a flatlander.
DougE is also correct when he says I can open my window most days and kill a dozen doe ...this small herd is nearly all that remains in the township these days...why are they living on my property??? because I planted a 32 acre field of corn/beans for them smack in the middle of it near my house to do my utmost to save them from the meat mongers...funny how they drive past my place and drool over those doe...even stop on occasion an ask to hunt them cause they just aren't seeing doe in the Gameless land nearby.
03-12-2010, 05:08 AM
#100
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,879
By the 1920's that area started to turn into pole timber which drastically reduced the carrying capacity and the habitat couldn't support those large numbers of deer.