Deer Article From the Adirondack Explorer

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This is a pretty interesting article from the Adirondack Explorer

http://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/deerdebate.php

I really would have to agree with this statement.

Billy Allan, an old-school hunter from Saranac Lake, offers this  view of the sportsmen’s gripes: “They’re lousy woodsmen; that’s exactly  why. You can sit in a stand for three weeks and not see a deer. The  people that don’t see deer, they either don’t hunt very much or don’t  move around very much. There’s six deer per square mile. Are you going  to sit in one place or you going to go find one? If I don’t see one for  twenty minutes, I’m gone.”    Allan has hunted in the Saranac Lake region for nearly four decades. He  reports seeing 100 to 150 deer each fall. “I see about the same amount  of deer every year, kill about the same amount of bucks every year,” he  said. “I’ve never had any problem finding deer. In my estimate it’s  remained very steady overall.”