was looking at some land in Pendleton County this weekend. Turned down a road that went along the licking river. Counted 11 deer in a 3 mile stretch
Yeppers!
Look on this map:
2017 harvest mapMy place is 2 miles from the Licking and 10 miles from the Ohio River.
Anywhere where there is yellow, orange, or red is crawling with deer. Along the northern boundary, The Ohio River, is green. However, it's good too. It just doesn't have as many hunters.
Where I am, Bracken County, the farmers all took the tobacco buyout 25 years ago and either stopped farming or switched to cattle or goats or sheep. As a result, there is a lot of fallow acreage, and the deer love it. The predominate forest is what's called "oak/hickory savana" which is just what it says: oaks and hickory with grass growing underneath. Besides that and open pastures I also have a lot of cedar thickets.
