Just had a guy call me from Tuskegee wanting me to track a deer he shot in town in his uncles back yard over a corn pile......I declined. That's how more deer get killed. Waaay more of that happening in north alabama due to the habitat fragmentation across much larger areas. If you're not able to comprehend it then I cant explain any better to you
What is happening with deer harvest numbers in Mobile, Baldwin, Tuscaloosa & Shelby counties? Doesnt get much more fragmented than those. Are they experiencing the "corn crash" too? If you cant open your eyes and see what is right in front of your face, I cant explain it any better to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back and look at the big picture and not get fixated on just one thing when there are multiple issues at play. Corn definitely has played a contributing part, I'm sure, but it's not the root cause of the problem. We wouldnt have an issue to even talk about, if AL didnt have a 118 day season and allow virtually unlimited doe harvest for all 118 days. That's the real root cause of the problem. We are going to settle back into that same 200K-220K range of chuckie checked deer a season, just like we were running pre-covid.
