Hi guys, the ehd out break in greene county ohio really took a toll on the deer herd around me.
I'm curious if anyone is seeing a substantial reduction in population or have experienced a die off in the past? I'm still seeing deer and was able to harvest but I'm getting around 1/3 of the deer that typically come through.

I'm in Athens county. We also had a major die off.   

8 bucks and one doe just on our couple square mile block.  Seems to have hit the bigger bucks the hardest.  And this is just the ones I found and or heard about.  All I've seen this year are does and smaller bucks.

   Happened here in Md. Eastern Shore as well.
  Folks I talk with aren't seeing many either and finding dead deer in fields as they harvest corn and beans .
   Had a bad outbreak just a few years ago as well.
  It's that or they got the Nasty "Covid" 

I wonder how long it will take to recover? I found three in my creek and my neighbors on both sides had one each in the same creek 100yds or so from my property. Pretty much the entire month of September my woods smelled awful.

Im in Jackson county and I think it hit here. Not seeing near the deer and not the buck population I had last year

Lots of factors are striking against our deer population.  This is why you don't keep the regs so as to keep the numbers low as they are in AREA'S of ohio. When the numbers are low , natural and unnatural disease/viruses /over harvest can be devastating to any species. 

Sadly money plays a large part in managment .  Often causing a DELAY in restrictions =less tags=less Government money . ONE of the reasons populations drop drastically on heavily hunted lands.........

That hit my area in PA about 10 years ago, we lost about 50% of the herd in my area in the SW.
Had several trail cam pictures of infected deer. They looked like they were run over by a truck.

Quote from: chefrvitale on November 19, 2022, 06:33:19 PM
I wonder how long it will take to recover? I found three in my creek and my neighbors on both sides had one each in the same creek 100yds or so from my property. Pretty much the entire month of September my woods smelled awful.

Hit a core area in my neighborhood about six years ago. That season I saw zero does in the woods while bow hunting. That's September through December. I remember that year a doe got killed by a car on my street and I was thinking bad to worse. It took four years for me to see what looked like an abundance of deer. Seeing them early and late. Some coming through the yard, stuff like that.

It has hit some areas of Missouri hard in recent years. At my property I have never had a problem. I've always wondered if it was because I have a spring running year round in the main hollow on the property.

We got hit hard with EHD here in 2012, the DNR stated over 85% mortality in the main drainage I hunt. Took 5 years to start looking up a bit. Indiana subsequently instituted high powered rifles as legal weapons during our 2 week prime rut gun season. Between these 2 main factors I'd say the population is 50% of what it was here a decade ago.

R