I wanted to share this with yuall mainly because it includes a quantitative way for you to evaluate whitetail deer habitat. Although it was developed specifically for Oklahoma, I think it could apply to other states as well. Most of us, if we can even manipulate our hunting grounds, do so based on seat of your pants personal opinions or things such as planting a food plot to attract deer to kill them and not necessarily to enhance available nutrition for your deer. Rarely do we try to actually put numbers to it to rate our land. It's also important to remember that your land (unless it is high fenced) is not a closed system. In evaluating your deer habitat, it's important to consider the neighboring lands as well. I'll be filling it out for the property that I own, even though that property it is not large and is seemingly not that attractive to deer. Based on my lifetime of experience with the property, I know better and I have it in my brain what I think makes deer use it. I'd like to try to corroborate that knowledge with numbers. I'll post my results when I'm done... www.okrangelandswest.okstate.edu/files/wildlife%20pdfs/E-979.pdf
