Well here is what the problem is. I have these pine thickets and you can't hunt them. We are talking clearcut, planted and the trees have yet to be thinned. That's probably 350 acres of my lease. Probably 400 or more is pines that are thick with no understory. So that's a deer wasteland. The rest is thinned pines and hardwoods.

The deer I have seen I have tracked when I got down, and they all go into the pine thickets. So they are out on the lease that's huntable at night, and then make their way back to the pine thickets early am. Once hunting pressure ramps up.

We are supposed to get some cutting/thinning this year which will help, but if I can't get the loggers or timber do to work with me a little, then it will be unhuntable in about 4 or 5 years again.

If I was king for a day, I'd get a forestry mulcher and cut lanes thru these thickets so we can plant them and hunt them from either end depending on the wind direction. When I walk the roads along the edges of the pine thickets there are deer tracks everywhere. So the deer are here.

If I can cut my membership, that would help. All my fields are lined and fertilized. I even taste some of the plants, they are sweet and not bitter at all.