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Here's a real basic diagram showing how the roads are impacting doe herds…..

The black lines represent highways. Generally speaking, doe herd expansion occurs in a series of overlapping home ranges of different doe groups…..kind of like petals on a flower……When expansion pushes to the road and you start getting doe groups that try to use both sides of the highway on a regular basis…..that petal eventually gets clipped off….Does who try use both side don’t live long and prosperous lives. They actually get knocked off pretty rapidly when they do that. It likely takes a situation where there’s some serious expansion pressure occurring with no pushback from the other direction for does to jump the boundary and never come back. We don’t have many expanding herds though or haven’t had for quite some time….so there isnt much potential for many to be bucking the system. A few do.....but a few dont change anything....they just create a little variance around the perimeter.