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I agree with Northsox. Cornell lands are good to have for another option for locals like us and Cornell employees that can "run out back" with a bow at 5 pm. On another note it is obvious that the Cornell deer reduction program using White Buffalo has worked as deer are not walking around campus like in the past I have not seen one with an ear tag this year.

The usual frustrated hunters that are not seeing the deer they think they should be seeing. Blame the DEC, coyotes, insurance companies, not enough logging, doe permits, hippies, bigfoot ... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's a natural resource and does not belong in a landfill. Hang it in a tree. Birds will feed on it all winter. Put up a trail cam and you will get all kinds of interesting photos - fisher, hawks etc.

For a big woods buck killer you waste alot of time blogging with the newbies. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Theodore Roosevelt has written at length on the subject. Modern firearms deer season in NY is relatively new (1940ish), as the forest was mostly cleared and wildlife wiped out in the 1800s. The Great Depression after WWI took the pressure off the land and resulted in most of the state land we have today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes. That is the essence of deer camp. The norm these days is guys get a deer and go home. Or complain about the “lack of deer” at the old family camp in the mountains or southern tier and leave early to go sit over a food plot on the land they lease with work buddies in the flat lands. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

10,000 yrs ago was a short time after the last glacial event so wildlife density was very low as plants were just getting re-established. By human hunting I assume you mean white people hunting as humans have inhabited this region, and hunted wildlife, for thousands of years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No offense but it sounds like you have never hunted north of Syracuse. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you are interested in forest management and improving wildlife habitat, then check out the NY Forest Owners Association and watch the many Webinars that are posted on-line by Cornell, SU, Penn State, U Vermont etc. Much of the forest in NY is 80-100 yrs old which is generally considered the least productive stage for wildlife. Early successional and old growth forest are the most productive stages of a forest for wildlife. Forest management to improve wildlife habitat is what most hunters would like to see. Logging is one of the many tools to accomplish that goal and under a management plan involves more cutting to improve diversity and quality of the forest than extract commercial timber. However, the sale of commercial timber is usually needed to fund the management work. The DEC writes Unit Management Plans (UMPs) for state lands. They are posted online and there is always a public comment period when a plan is drafted. No I do not work for the DEC but I do own and manage forested land in NY, and I hunt the ADK, Allegany State Park and the ANF in PA.

I see no deer so cut the woods down. Sell the timber burn the rest. Then I see deer and maybe be happy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After opening day you could cut many blood trails and see 1 drag mark. The talk back at the trucks was like “Yea I got 10 shots” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

First hunted ASP in the 80s. Duck plug in shotgun, invasion of the orange army, trucks lined up on the shoulders, hunting clubs with headsets, banging pots n pans on deer drives, City hunters stealing deer from cabins (some folks chained and locked their deer) and buying bucks on the rez on way home. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

40-50 lbs Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You should have used all caps in your correction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk