question about whitetails

[Dillershortbow]

TR or anyone . Whats the reason for the movement of the whitetails? Twenty years ago in BC we had whitetail in the eastern edge of the provence .Where i live there was a couple of pockets of WTs thy never seemed to increase in numbers. Now we have them everywhere there hanging around with the billygoats on top the mountains. Thy are in places where there is to mutch snow for mule dear . Is this caused because of globle warming ? I`am shure not complaining just wondering.

[WOOKIE]

Diller, in your area I think it is because so much land has been opened up by logging. WT's are fringe deer, meaning they like to hang out in transition zones (i.e.) edges of big timber/ clearings. I think logging has just made more artificial habitat for them to inhabit. Just my $0.02.

[Dillershortbow]

If it was bacause of logging it would of happen years before in the 1970 we pretty mutch logged this hole country . Now all those huge cut block have grown up so thick its impossible to hunt them. The whitetail are just exspoding last year i whent to my early season troghy mule deer spot high up in the alpine my Gps said it was over 1500 meters all i saw in three days was WT does . But then turkeys or moving in really fast and so are elk . Its all good for us hunters

[alwayshunting]

The aviability of food will increase the deer populations and the lack of predators in a area. As clear cutting happens the food for deer increases the predator have a harder time sneeking up on their pray making kills harder. If total clear cutting takes place the deer still need treed areas to bed down and have their young. Deer populations will drop when total reforestation takes place in many years after being clear cut.

[ronburrell]

usually agriculture brings more deer. I know some people whose grandparents settled on the battle river near gallahad, said there was no deer till the crops were planted. There are twenty million whitetail in North America.