It’s all pretty subjective and a matter of opinion on where any one person thinks is the appropriate place to manage…..BUT….


You can do like a timber cruise but instead of assessing the timber with each plot you do an assessment on the understory vegetation…..What species do you see present in each plot….in what abundance do the different understory plant species exist? How does this year’s assessment compare to prior years??......Some folks are looking to manage at levels where certain plant species are allowed to flourish and reproduce without being wiped out by the deer…..You’re looking for diversity and higher preference plants to still be present and not browsed into “extinction” so to speak….. to where the quality of the overall forage declines