Many Areas out East are sensitive to pressure.

We have a place here in Kansas that If I do a lot of hunting / work in the woods any given year we see maybe 5 deer a day on that place.
IF we stay off the place, and walk into it a way that the deer can’t detect - we see 12 to 20 deer a Morning / Evening.

A key to that was NOT driving down a gravel road to the cabin which is almost a mile long - if you are hunting and someone drives down that road it pisses you off.
Apparently the deer and yotes know it too... so they take off.