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In my opinions - one of the hardest things to do as a land manager is accurately assess your deer population, especially in large timbered areas. I hear so often “we don’t have that many deer”.
Just the fact that you cannot see a long ways in large timber tracts, often limits the number of “sighted” deer on the landscape. However, this does not mean they are not there - we also don’t want to just assume the deer densities are adequate without some type of quantifiable attempt.
I know we have a high dpsm on the farm. However- we don’t often get pictures of 7+ deer at a time.
We do get a lot of pictures simultaneously and we measure browse both on woody regen and food plots.
When you combine all of this together - it adds up for some really good assessment of the local deer density and allows us to put togyuer a plan for cutting timber, planting food plots and harvesting does.
Make/plant more food, shoot more does or often times - do both!
Just the fact that you cannot see a long ways in large timber tracts, often limits the number of “sighted” deer on the landscape. However, this does not mean they are not there - we also don’t want to just assume the deer densities are adequate without some type of quantifiable attempt.
I know we have a high dpsm on the farm. However- we don’t often get pictures of 7+ deer at a time.
We do get a lot of pictures simultaneously and we measure browse both on woody regen and food plots.
When you combine all of this together - it adds up for some really good assessment of the local deer density and allows us to put togyuer a plan for cutting timber, planting food plots and harvesting does.
Make/plant more food, shoot more does or often times - do both!
