Wolves and Bears are better than the Whiteman!

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/why-world-needs-wolves

Need more hunters and less friggin video games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd prefer 4 billion less humans and a whole lot more large predators....    

ScottyJack wrote

I'd prefer 4 billion less humans and a whole lot more large predators....    

And less video games...i hate that shit...too many kids can't even tell the diff between a birch or a maple tree...sad, very sad

totally concur - that's why we really need 4 billion less of them uninformed types...  

Phil on video games

that was awesome!  Is that a TV show?  

OH yes it is!!!!! Duck Dynasty on A&E...U obvi aren't a redneck or you would know all about it

Phil on yuppies



This family are multi-millionares. They made there money making duck calls as well as duck hunting.

http://www.duckcommander.com/

Uncle Si

Awesome!  Not sure we get A&E up here in these parts...  I be looking 4sure.

start a duck dynasty thread!!  

Hard to believe that deer browsing is the main cause as that article indicates. You can spend days  in the Adirondacks without seeing any deer

Whitetail deer are an "edge" species.  They do not prefer older, mature forests. Plus the Forest Preserve is 3 million plus acres which gives them plenty of room to avoid you...

I'll also add not seeing lots of deer sign. Article indicates this taking place where the existing "storied" maples currently are

I've been visiting the Adks regularly since 1988.  I never saw a single deer in the period 1988 - 2000. I saw my first deer deep in the woods in 2001 and it really kinda freaked me out. We've got tons of deer in the flatlands, but this was a really odd experience. The deer locked eyes with me and actually followed me for about a quarter mile on a bushwack in the Siamese Wilderness.  I assumed she must be sick somehow, her behavior was so odd.

Part of what weirded me out was that I hadn't seen a single deer in over ten years traveling through the woods.  In the next few years though it became more common.  I'd see two or three each time I visited. Now I've got this small open area on our property where I tried to get some red maples to grow and the shoots got chowed. I'm assuming by deer.  Seeing deer tracks in the snow on our property now too.  It's not exactly a neighborhood, but it isn't really in the woods either.

Definitely have spent less time in the deep BC in the last few years and more along the "edge" so that might be part of it. But also seems like I am seeing more deer.

While driving home the back way, through Dixville Notch, from Sugarloaf last year, I must have seen hundreds of deer. This year, not a one. A local told me that because of the snow last year, they were forced off the mountains into the low lands. Guess nothing was forcing them down this year.

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Phil is a friggen hoot and ON target on this one :>)

Thanx Camp never saw this gig b4

ScottyJack wrote

Whitetail deer are an "edge" species.  They do not prefer older, mature forests. Plus the Forest Preserve is 3 million plus acres which gives them plenty of room to avoid you...

This....there are PLENTY of deer in the Dacks, just tougher to find them, but when you do....boy howdy are they BIG!!!!

Next time you come out here, wear an " I LOVE WOLVES " t-shirt into a bar.

lolkl wrote

Next time you come out here, wear an " I LOVE WOLVES " t-shirt into a bar.

Be like a fart in church