Great show you guys! I like the segment about the guys going up North for deer camp. I don't think that happens as much as it used to, but I wish that it did. 🙂
Hunting on public lands is a seriously dicey proposition as the MDNR does very little habitat work for white-tailed deer (WTD) and timber harvests on state and federal lands are not what they used to be because of environmental regulations and business taxes contributing to the loss of forest product manufacturing jobs in MIchigan. WTD are creatures of edge and the earlier successional stages of forest growth. When the forests pass a certain point of maturity, the WTD population begins to wane as there is not much left within reach on which to browse. I am not surprised that your camp only took two WTD in northern Michigan. It is a very great pity that there is not more public land in the lower four tiers of counties in the Lower Peninsula as you would probably enjoy a higher rate of success with the locally abundant WTD population.
