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gunjunkie · 03-24-2016, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by north country gal

Actually, we could use a few more four-legged predators in the neighborhood. The neighborhood deer population needs some trimming. They've badly over-browsed our local forest.

Have they raised the number of deer tags to control the population?

north country gal · 03-25-2016, 07:33 AM

No, definitely not. Just the opposite, in fact. Overall, deer numbers have been down for several years in our north woods after we had a record hard winter, three years, ago and the population really hasn't shown much improvement, since, despite the last two very mild winters. To make matters worse, CWD has now been reported in the area for the first time, so hard to say what things will be like this fall. Has a lot of locals worried. The tradition of folks heading up here to hunt deer in the north woods is big business. A lot of those hunters that live to the south in farm country are finding more deer closer to home.

As for our neighborhood, mostly a just a matter of no one hunting deer in our neighborhood and they're not as exposed to predators as deer in more remote areas with all the people about. The guy that used to own our place shot deer right off our deck.

Dennis H · 03-25-2016, 07:37 AM

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03-25-2016, 07:33 AM	#22
north country gal Senior Member Joined: Jan 2013 From: northern wisconsin Posts: 6,001	No, definitely not. Just the opposite, in fact. Overall, deer numbers have been down for several years in our north woods after we had a record hard winter, three years, ago and the population really hasn't shown much improvement, since, despite the last two very mild winters. To make matters worse, CWD has now been reported in the area for the first time, so hard to say what things will be like this fall. Has a lot of locals worried. The tradition of folks heading up here to hunt deer in the north woods is big business. A lot of those hunters that live to the south in farm country are finding more deer closer to home. As for our neighborhood, mostly a just a matter of no one hunting deer in our neighborhood and they're not as exposed to predators as deer in more remote areas with all the people about. The guy that used to own our place shot deer right off our deck. Last edited by north country gal; 03-25-2016 at 07:44 AM.

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03-25-2016, 07:37 AM	#23
Dennis H Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,664	http://m.jsonline.com/sports/outdoor...367125021.html