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Offline ihookem

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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2009, 12:31:53 PM »
 Up in unit 20 and did not see a deer in 2 days. The trail cam had 2 does on it and it was there for one month. Is this unusual on your trail cams ?
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #31 on: September 25, 2009, 04:38:12 PM »
Still very few deer up north. I did notice  the white pines are growing very well without getting chewed up. I also saw something I never saw before, Hemlock trees sprouting up everywhere. In 28 years of hunting Price and Sawyer co. I never saw young Hemlocks. I see only mature Hemlocks that must be 100 years old. I think there was a time when there were not enough deer to eat them all until they got too tall for the deer to eat. Has anyone seen this?
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #32 on: September 29, 2009, 04:28:50 PM »
I spent the last 2 weekends in Douglas County bear hunting.  Lots of wolf sign and actually saw a wolf but very little deer sign.

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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2009, 07:26:14 AM »
did you hit him????   ;D
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #34 on: October 01, 2009, 04:29:24 AM »
No, but I actually saw him on hwy 53 about 1/2 mile north of hwy 77 in Minong heading West,  Big wolf, very big.....
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #35 on: October 01, 2009, 03:22:36 PM »
The cedar and hemlock grew in the north when the deer population was very low, some places non-existent. In more modern times the biologists stated the only place in the state that hemlocks and cedars grew from small (seed or shoots) was the Menominee reservation due to native hunting keeping deer numbers very low.

As a side note, heard about someone with a trail camera near a wolf den and during the summer months 20 fawns were brought to the den.
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2009, 04:05:31 PM »
WI DNR information states that each wolf will take about 18 deer per year.  OK, but how many wolves are there?  I don't think they really know and there are many more than they think.  Lot's of tracks out there.....I would not go for  a hike in the WI woods without a side arm.  I think it's only a matter of time until a human / wolf run in happens in the area I was in.  God forbid it ever does, but with that many wolves, they will get hungry and desperate.

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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #37 on: October 03, 2009, 04:15:14 PM »
Actually, the wolf huggers claim a wolf takes 18 adult deer a year. They don't count fawns for obvious reasons.
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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #38 on: October 03, 2009, 06:40:46 PM »
Almost everyone knows, the DNR can not count, deer or wolves or the fingers on one hand. >:(

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Re: Deer numbers in your hunting areas?
« Reply #39 on: October 03, 2009, 06:46:21 PM »
Quote from: Cheesehead on October 03, 2009, 06:40:46 PM
Almost everyone knows, the DNR can not count, deer or wolves or the fingers on one hand. >:(

And they're really in trouble if they're wearing mittens. :D
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« Reply #40 on: October 03, 2009, 06:47:48 PM »
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