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To even better understand what BSK was harping on in the first of this thread about natural selection dictating things after the fact…….What he was saying is that there is the potential for natural selection to still alter the rut timing within any one of these isolated pockets to fit what is best suited for that area well after the fact regardless of what was originally stocked there……The very reason that nature throws out a little variance in the population and it happens in a bell shaped curve when it comes to things like estrous timing is so that the population can evolve or adjust over time to changing conditions……If something about early Jan begins to heavily favor those fawns over late Jan then the rut would slowly shift over time……That’s how natural selection and evolution works and how species are able to change and adapt.

Now here’s the thing…….There probably aren’t many areas that have likely been effected by any kind of over riding environmental influences different from other areas to cause “evolutionary shifts” of this type….. Most areas are likely just running true to how the stockings shook out…….However, its good to understand that the potential exists and how it would happen……because if you understand that then it opens up the can of worms that it IS possible for us humans to still change things by artificially creating an “influence”…….or restocking an isolated area of low density