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<blockquote data-quote="yobuck" data-source="post: 1174165" data-attributes="member: 12443"><p>As for food plots, i doubt the PGC would be spending money creating them where</p><p>numerous farms exist. That would be the case in a large portion of the state including sizable portions of the Sullivan Bradford county areas you mention. If youve done the ammount of traveling about you claim, im surprised you arent aware of the ammount of food plots that have been and continue to be created in other areas. The entire Quehanna area and also areas surrounding it have had numerous food plots created.</p><p>No question the reason for them and the area chosen for them has been for the</p><p>benefit of the ever growing elk herd. But certainly the deer and other wildlife benefit also from them. </p><p>For those of us in that region of the state the actions taken by the PGC in reducing deer numbers drasticly starting 40 years ago was a hard thing to understand.</p><p> We were told by the PGC at large and loud meetings that the area could no longer support more than about two deer per sq mile. Today their reasons are far more clear than we were told back then. Starting about the same time roads began</p><p>to be gated off also making large areas essentially unaccessable to many of the aging population of hunters. Today the majority of dirt roads are gated thruout the entire region. </p><p>We now have a clear picture of what were the PGC plans for decades. That being at all cost the elk herd must prosper. The road closings benefit the DCNR also as now</p><p>they arent required to provide any maintenance on them at all. </p><p>Its about the elk, its all about the elk and it has been for decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yobuck, post: 1174165, member: 12443"] As for food plots, i doubt the PGC would be spending money creating them where numerous farms exist. That would be the case in a large portion of the state including sizable portions of the Sullivan Bradford county areas you mention. If youve done the ammount of traveling about you claim, im surprised you arent aware of the ammount of food plots that have been and continue to be created in other areas. The entire Quehanna area and also areas surrounding it have had numerous food plots created. No question the reason for them and the area chosen for them has been for the benefit of the ever growing elk herd. But certainly the deer and other wildlife benefit also from them. For those of us in that region of the state the actions taken by the PGC in reducing deer numbers drasticly starting 40 years ago was a hard thing to understand. We were told by the PGC at large and loud meetings that the area could no longer support more than about two deer per sq mile. Today their reasons are far more clear than we were told back then. Starting about the same time roads began to be gated off also making large areas essentially unaccessable to many of the aging population of hunters. Today the majority of dirt roads are gated thruout the entire region. We now have a clear picture of what were the PGC plans for decades. That being at all cost the elk herd must prosper. The road closings benefit the DCNR also as now they arent required to provide any maintenance on them at all. Its about the elk, its all about the elk and it has been for decades. [/QUOTE]
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