According to the Morning Call, a study done last year by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Forestry, shows that there are too many deer that are devastating the forests.
DCNR Secretary Michael DiBerardinis called the study results ”troubling” and said they provide a strong warning against efforts to increase the size of the state’s deer herd.
”It would be premature to draw any conclusions that would support an increased deer herd, even in areas where we observed relatively low-browse damage,” DiBerardinis said. ”Across the entire state forest system, less than 25 percent of?plots showed desirable regeneration, and almost 45 percent of the plots lacked any new, woody growth.”
Tom Remington
