Gill-T

Got it to work now.

I remember your past year's struggles on this thread so it may be seasonal food shifts or the greater usage of food plots by the public. That is why an aerial survey would be helpful. I would think there would be federal funding through the USDA related to COVID studies.

This would be a good year for aerial surveys to make sure the DEC’s ten year plan isn’t going to be adversely affected by COVID. I drove all around Skaneateles this evening at dusk and only saw a few deer around town. I am just not seeing them. USDA doesn’t really have evidence of clinical COVID significance in deer. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/one_health/downloads/qa-covid-white-tailed-deer-study.pdf

There are over 400 people hospitalized in Erie county right now due to COVID. Just about everyone I know has gotten this latest version or has family members that had a recent bout of Omicron. Thankfully, the level of mortality with this rendition has been low.

chowder, he lives in Old Forge NY where there are more bears per square mile than people. His sense of reality is slightly skewed in the bubble he lives in.

Move it to March if possible

Cook and eat burbot like lobster.

Has anyone been able to get the membership renewal to work on the LOTSA website?

That is just it. Not seeing them in fields, not seeing many road kills, not on top of hunter cars and not many while hunting. It will be interesting to see the final numbers.

Yes!

Yes, I hunt state land around Almond most years. This year I didn’t get down that way. Nice country.

Thank god. I haven’t seen a deer on top of a car all year.

Is it me or are there a lot less deer around this year? We have had some really mild winters lately so there should be plenty. Is it CWD? COVID? Too many doe permits given out? I see these hunting shows filmed out in the Midwest on the same looking farmland found around NY and they are hunting over 40 deer in a field late season. The deer out there don’t look famished so I doubt the carrying capacity is being encroached upon. Most states out west you get a buck tag and a doe tag. Easy. No complicating DMP zones. If it wasn’t for a breeding pair of foxes under my stand this evening tonight would have been a complete bust. I have skunked a TON this year and I am concerned.

For those that run both a fishhawk and a moor subtroll, what is the difference in speed between the two units?

I hope in my lifetime I see elk in the wild in NYS …….but never wolves https://buffalonews.com/news/after-a-150-year-absence-elk-are-being-brought-back-to-new-york-state/article_c0be2675-e80a-56d0-93f2-0e3fcd8212d9.html