Kuneytown Regulars on the Cover of a US Fish & Wildlife Program

Forest health, deer population, etc.

I have been part of many conversations around the bar at K-town discussing the pros and cons of deer harvest management in our area. The arguments generally tend to end up around conspiracies that "They" are allowing too many deer to be killed, resulting in hunter satisfaction decrease because hunters "aren't seeing" hundreds of deer a day like they used to.

Please see the interesting report here:

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/newyork/files/forestregenfactsheet.pdf

Pay special attention to the photograph taken in Seneca Falls and think about where your deer stand is. Do they look similar? If yes, ask yourself about the bigger picture of deer management, and more importantly, forest management (where ALL of our wildlife live)-- there are reasons why we aren't seeing a hundred deer a day anymore. Good ones. If we don't get these forests back on track, it won't just be deer that we are seeing less of... food for thought.

MEETING NIGHT CHANGE

THE MONTHLY MEETING WILL NOW BE ON THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH MARK YOUR CALENDAR 3/7/2011
See You at the Club Eric

SQUIRREL/RABBIT DERBY 2/26/2011

To end the small game season, we are having a combination squirrel/rabbit derby. Hunters will weigh in the total rabbits and squirrel bag separately. We will pay out first place and lunker in both categories. Please contact Eric at 315-730-2257 or stop at the club on a Friday night to enter and enjoy the company of your fellow members. Don't forget to enter the kids. This is a great event to involve young hunters.

Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension will again be conducting processing and cooking demonstrations.

Flyer with rules coming soon.

See you at the club.

Eric