After the hired sharpshooters wiped out a lot of the golf course deer and the bowhunters in the first few years knocked around the starving, wormy deer in the woods, the population began declining. A lot of the mature deer brought in for those first few hunts were severely malnourished, underweight and had other issues.

That was the point of both of those tactics - reduce the population, get them back to some semblance of health, and help the woods begin to regrow. Anyone who was there knew of the easily visible browse line about 6-8 feet high. Deer were eating cedars and pines, or anything they could get.


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