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No doubt enough Deer could do so, but I've pretty much hung around those types of covers for longer than I want to admit. Also during times of some high Deer numbers in Pa. Times when you could easily see 30 Deer per day and 50 plus wasn't uncommon but have yet to see where they could extensively ruin thick Grouse nesting cover here in Pa.


Some examples:


This isn't a recent thick cut,but if lucky you could bump into 20 Deer around this spot if things went right and there is one in this pic. Some Grouse are usually close by and nest successfully.



Here happens to be two from right below the first pic.



Pa GC Biologists will tell you this area has too many Deer. I can tell you, it doesn't have even close to enough to eat the Grouse out of nesting cover.




The background of this pic is cover you have to fight your way thru. Deer may do it easily and they are in there. It would take more than I could imagine to wipe the nesting cover out.