2011 drought

[AgHntr10]

I had this same thought during the season and mentioned it to a couple of folks then. I had a couple of really old deer on camera and TON of 1-3 yr olds but not much in the way of 4-5 year olds.

[Corn Sack]

Glass half full. 4 years from now there ought to be an insane number of 4.5 year old.

Not for me, I only had two fawns make to this point so far. I have 16 resident does that stay on me year round. All of them were successfully bred as everyone of them looked like a broodmare ready to pop. The alpha doe, who has a double throat patch has consistently thrown triplets year after year. Just a bad year on my place. Multiple heavy floods, fire ants seeking refuge on the same high ground and coyotes all but completely wiped out my fawns this year.

[Drycreek3189]

I had this same thought during the season and mentioned it to a couple of folks then. I had a couple of really old deer on camera and TON of 1-3 yr olds but not much in the way of 4-5 year olds.

Same here. Not only that, on the place where I live, about half, or maybe more, of my hardwoods died. Im talking about big, mature red oaks and white oaks So I'm not through suffering from the drought.

[Playa]

We had an interesting result. We seemed to have mature buck numbers seemingly unaffected. But we had a significant gap in mature does.

That makes me think the whip effect of the 2010-2011 drought could last for years. Theoretically that is 3-4 years of below average fawn production. No does=no fawns

[GarGuy]

Same here. Not only that, on the place where I live, about half, or maybe more, of my hardwoods died. Im talking about big, mature red oaks and white oaks So I'm not through suffering from the drought.

I lost several hundred ancient pin oaks and redoaks. Lots of mture pine died here as well. The flip side of that is how much it opened the canopy and let browse grow. Thats what i was talking about in my earlier post. Greenbriar and honeysuckle out the rear.