That is probably your biggest limiting factor. I bet if you could thin out the whole place to get good sunlight over every square foot of forest floor, your deer wouldn't be able to come close to keeping up with the place.with a closed canopy, a browse line really only occurs on the woods edges, because there is no browse in the interior to chew on anyways. It only makes sense that the whole population hits the few acres that ARE cut as soon as the greens get going.
What you need to break the cycle is yes, less deer, but more importantly the ability to cut a larger percentage of your place than the DNR plan allows.
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