Season 12 · Episode 26
Episode 471, Danny's Trip to the Upper Peninsula, Deer Management - Bucks, Does, Fawns and Milk Production
Up North Journal Podcast · Mike Adams and Dan DeFauw
July 9, 20181h 3m
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Show Notes
Danny gives us a report from his trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula
- Time at deer camp
- Talking about the recent flood and the water levels
- Fishing was slow
- Fishing almanac
Chatting about trail cams and cellphone styled trail cams
- Little Bear
- Bigger Bear
- Bear survey from the Michigan DNR
Deer management
- Buck to doe ratios and what the problems become with the rut when they are askew
- How it affects the bucks
- How does the age class of does affect the herd
- Fawns being bred, how big do they have to be to be bred
- What is the affect of fawns being bred on the deer herd
- How does the habitat affect the health of the herd and the fawning
- Does and milk
- If you can tighten up the rut, how does it affect the fawning season and predation
- Food plots and predation
- Discussion as to why states don't take a regional approach to solving CWD instead of each state by itself