Not to say that it doesn't happen but I haven't hunted anywhere that seems the deer population is too high for the carrying capacity. They all seem to be eating their fill. Maybe we need to thin the timber, crops, and natural browse so that more nutrients are absorbed into the remaining plants and then by the deer eating them, lol.

This is a problem here, there is little timber harvesting going on, every field is in fescue for the most part, and on years with no mast crops the pickings get a little slim by now.

We could use a ton of timbering and letting hay fields revert.

Most all the small game would benefit alot from that too..

What amazes me, is the amount of $$$ landowners have locked up in mature hardwoods in this part of the state. It makes me wonder if any of them have ever even considered the revenue benefits from doing a select cut or thinning on their timber.

Just talking at lunch with PMC, I'm getting more bucks on trail cams than does. I think my area is below capacity and sex ratios are very close. Ehd did knock them back quite a bit but the long term outcome will be better IMO.