Went post season scouting on SGL 55 on 01/27/2007.  Checked out the food plot near the cell phone tower.  It  seems that there was winter wheat, turnips and possibly corn planted there this past year. There was a lot of deer sign in the food plot.  The deer were eating the turnip greens.   Also saw some coyote tracks. Notice a lot of orange tape on trees not the kind that hunters use to mark a trail to their stand but the kind used in surveying.  The trees were also marked with paint and the words in and out were on the opposite sides of one tree near a trail.  I'm wondering if this will be timbered or just cut to provide cover?  Also, checked out the section of the game land that borders the girl scout camp, camp Louise.  The food plot on this section had nowhere near the deer activity like the upper section.  There were deer tracks on the road leading to the food plot which suggested to me that the deer were finding refuge in the camp.  Considering the slaughteing of the deer herd over the past 7 years it seems there are still some deer left on this Game Land.  The only downfall of the Game Land is the area of sulfur runoff coming out of the ground near the access road to the middle parking area.  I hope this rust colored mess doesn't get into the streams. 

Hopefully, there is only one more year left to this slaughter since the deer management program in up after the 2007-08 season.  Let's hope the PGC uses some common sense when designing the next management plan.  Maybe it's time for some political intervention.  That's a scary idea also.  Maybe the hunters should stop shooting doe!!!!

I contacted the PGC about the orange tape on the trees and this is the response I received.
"According to the Northeast Region, the field foresters are doing reconnaissance work on this game lands. They are developing a stand analysis and plan to lay out a timber sale on this game lands. The tentative plan is to have the area marked this year, and the actual sale would occur sometime after July 1, 2007." Well there goes hunting for about 2 years!!!!!!!!!

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