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<blockquote data-quote="pluckem" data-source="post: 180286" data-attributes="member: 843">IMO I think we made it past that. Prior to this winter, how many years did we go with mild winters and high fawn rates? 4-5 years?&nbsp; That's more than enough to bring back the population to what the habitat will allow.&nbsp; And that is the main difference between the years with 100k tags and what we have now.I don't have the data but the loss of CRP, trees, and habitat since those years is huge.&nbsp;&nbsp; Its not just bad winters and high tag numbers that have the deer population where its at. I think many can agree last years winter took many deer to the brink. They survived off of feed lots, bales, and standing crops.&nbsp; I'm guessing that if we went into the winter with 30k more deer in the herd we wouldn't have much different deer numbers this summer as we currently have. This is the new normal until we see a change in habitat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pluckem, post: 180286, member: 843"] IMO I think we made it past that. Prior to this winter, how many years did we go with mild winters and high fawn rates? 4-5 years? That's more than enough to bring back the population to what the habitat will allow. And that is the main difference between the years with 100k tags and what we have now. I don't have the data but the loss of CRP, trees, and habitat since those years is huge. Its not just bad winters and high tag numbers that have the deer population where its at. I think many can agree last years winter took many deer to the brink. They survived off of feed lots, bales, and standing crops. I'm guessing that if we went into the winter with 30k more deer in the herd we wouldn't have much different deer numbers this summer as we currently have. This is the new normal until we see a change in habitat. [/QUOTE]

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