Your place has mostly young and mid aged pines with hardwood drains
You can’t burn to keep new growth in the understory, what happens to the carrying capacity of that land for 20 plus years.
It actually declines as it ages Greenfields will offset this BUT do you have 10% in fields. Supplemental feeding helping? Corn or actual nutritional feed that helps offset?
For the most part without prescribed fire your land will not support a healthy deer herd as the pines age.
If memory serves me well Mature hardwoods and unmanaged pines will support around 20 deer per square mile A mated pine plantation around 40-50 deer per square mile Early successional, young pine replanted cutovers 60 deer per square mile.
640 acres in a square mile, how big is your club
Keywords are healthy and support
Ahhhh, now you're gonna cause problems. Some folks think Alabama is supposed to have a doe behind every tree and monster bucks running wild everywhere. Doesn't matter if the area/ property can support them or not.
