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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5660574" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Exactly what JCDEERMAN said. He's dead on the money. During the fawning season, Nature has made does with fawns dominant over all other deer, including bucks. They will drive other deer away from their little fawning territory. This is good for the species as a whole, as this maximizes fawn survival; i.e. the does raising fawns get all the best resources. Bucks can exist on lesser-quality resources for the time being.</p><p></p><p>What JCDEERMAN experienced is exactly what I have experienced on my own property. When we first bought it, the property was 90% hardwoods, but it is surrounded on three sides by massive agricultural bottomlands. All of the does and fawns would be in the bottomlands in summer while the bucks were relegated to my poor hardwood habitat (little in the way of native food sources due to the complete forest canopy). A summer photo census would pick up 12-18 different bucks of all ages using the property all summer. Once fawning time was over, the does and their fawns would move up out of the agricultural fields into my hill-country hardwoods. However, once we started cutting timber and making lots of thick cover and natural forage, the situation suddenly reversed. Now my place - because of the thick cover - has become the fawning territory, and bucks are almost non-existent in the summer. I may pick up only 3-5 in summer and they are almost all yearlings. But once acorns begin to fall and the farmers start harvesting the crops in the adjacent bottomlands, my place becomes flooded with bucks. I've got the fall food source (acorns) as well as the sanctuary cover from hunting pressure deer are looking for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5660574, member: 17"] Exactly what JCDEERMAN said. He's dead on the money. During the fawning season, Nature has made does with fawns dominant over all other deer, including bucks. They will drive other deer away from their little fawning territory. This is good for the species as a whole, as this maximizes fawn survival; i.e. the does raising fawns get all the best resources. Bucks can exist on lesser-quality resources for the time being. What JCDEERMAN experienced is exactly what I have experienced on my own property. When we first bought it, the property was 90% hardwoods, but it is surrounded on three sides by massive agricultural bottomlands. All of the does and fawns would be in the bottomlands in summer while the bucks were relegated to my poor hardwood habitat (little in the way of native food sources due to the complete forest canopy). A summer photo census would pick up 12-18 different bucks of all ages using the property all summer. Once fawning time was over, the does and their fawns would move up out of the agricultural fields into my hill-country hardwoods. However, once we started cutting timber and making lots of thick cover and natural forage, the situation suddenly reversed. Now my place - because of the thick cover - has become the fawning territory, and bucks are almost non-existent in the summer. I may pick up only 3-5 in summer and they are almost all yearlings. But once acorns begin to fall and the farmers start harvesting the crops in the adjacent bottomlands, my place becomes flooded with bucks. I've got the fall food source (acorns) as well as the sanctuary cover from hunting pressure deer are looking for. [/QUOTE]
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