re: Better feed those deer--the drought has been tough

No amount of supplemental feeding this late in the game is going to make a difference, you’d need to be bringing in pallets of protein a week. This has been tough on the fawn crop, but that’s how deer manage their density if you haven’t been doing it for them so now is the time to be looking at doe harvest numbers hard. Similar to the hard freeze a few years ago, this next spring is when habitat improvement and warm season plots can pay dividends with a smaller number of deer.