http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/12/14/maines-deer-herd-may-be-in-worse-shape-than-feared/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maines-deer-herd-may-be-in-worse-shape-than-feared Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Sat, 26 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/12/14/maines-deer-herd-may-be-in-worse-shape-than-feared/#comment-16190 Lorne Bacher Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:36:07 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=8654#comment-16190 Tom Remington hit the nail on the head. I am from PA. and have been hunting northern maine since around 1990 with my brother and cousin. We love to hunt here becuse we can get deep in the woods and and not see another hunter. We always had the chance to see and locate bucks. The last eight years or so its hard to even find any buck sign. All the areas we hunted are now gone because of severe logging and roads right through cedar swamps etc. The beech are all dead on the ridges. The deer yards are gone. I can't believe the state of maine allows this destruction. There are coyotes all over the place. We see there tracks everywhere and here every night no matter where we hunt. I know for a fact what kind of damage the dogs can do on deer. I've seen it first hand in PA. especially during the fawning season. The bears in PA. also prey heavily on the fawns here. Its no different in Maine. There are coyotes shot in PA. yearly that reach over 50 pounds. If the biologists in Maine don't pressure the agencies to eliminate the doe licences in northern maine for at least a minimum of five years and stop the way the logging companies work, the herd may never recover between the winters, yards being logged, and the large predators. A few years ago my cousin and I drove 65 miles in one day on old grown over back roads with four inches of fresh snow and did not even cut a single deer track. It time for the agencies to wake up and take care of the deer herd. There are going to be alot of outfitters, etc. loosing their livelyhood if something doesn't change. I hope the agencies start doing whats right!!!! Tom Remington hit the nail on the head. I am from PA. and have been hunting northern maine since around 1990 with my brother and cousin. We love to hunt here becuse we can get deep in the woods and and not see another hunter. We always had the chance to see and locate bucks. The last eight years or so its hard to even find any buck sign. All the areas we hunted are now gone because of severe logging and roads right through cedar swamps etc. The beech are all dead on the ridges. The deer yards are gone. I can’t believe the state of maine allows this destruction. There are coyotes all over the place. We see there tracks everywhere and here every night no matter where we hunt. I know for a fact what kind of damage the dogs can do on deer. I’ve seen it first hand in PA. especially during the fawning season. The bears in PA. also prey heavily on the fawns here. Its no different in Maine. There are coyotes shot in PA. yearly that reach over 50 pounds. If the biologists in Maine don’t pressure the agencies to eliminate the doe licences in northern maine for at least a minimum of five years and stop the way the logging companies work, the herd may never recover between the winters, yards being logged, and the large predators. A few years ago my cousin and I drove 65 miles in one day on old grown over back roads with four inches of fresh snow and did not even cut a single deer track. It time for the agencies to wake up and take care of the deer herd. There are going to be alot of outfitters, etc. loosing their livelyhood if something doesn’t change. I hope the agencies start doing whats right!!!!

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