I know the flood wiped the hogs off the map around here. I cannot find one to throw on the grill. Now, two long time landowners and wildlife managers whose opinion I absolutely respect are saying that they have very few deer this year. One has gone ahead and closed the season on his property and the other is allowing one deer per Member for the season.
My upland plots are grazed to the ground and my swamp edge plots are barely being touched and it has had me perplexed. A sack of corn can sit a week on the ground where, typically, 3 bags a night would not last.
Anyone else hearing anything? It certainly stands to reason that a flood of unprecedented magnitude could have severely hurt our deer herds as it unquestionably did our hog plague. We cannot afford to wait for DNR to catch up in a few years telling is we should not have shot all those does after the flood or some such as the data comes in. It is on us who operate in the flood plains to take the lead. We will start hunting soon and see what we see. Y'all who hunt swampland keep us informed on what you are seeing/hearing/ etc. Thanks.
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