Its legal here, conditions and environment different though, eastern woodland, meadows, ag land and of course lots of residences in between or abounding ag lands
It is legal to plant forage, its also legal to cut tree branches and leave out, say in the fall or so.
It is illegal to bait them, say using corn, apples, or one of those feeders and I think even a salt lick, none of those are even necessary the way I see it, have no use for that at all.
The forage, they will heavily browse in the late summer into late fall, they will build up some fat for winter and it shows in any that have been taken, meat is very good when finished on grasses or similar forage, now they still browse other things but the whitetail will graze these plots. This helps them with a harsh winter,like the previous one. It can go to adequate food, to nil, get some heavy snow cover and its staghorn sumac bark and those small crab apples, cherry size and any others they can find. Last year in the field adjacent to our place, its well over 20 acres, the corn was replanted, geese decimated it, stunted, he just left that portion and the entire herd in this area congregated around it, whatever was in there, gave them something, so there is benefit, but that winter is still a natural occurrence so between that and coyotes, they could take a big hit, plus this area is hunted, meaning there are stands throughout, the herd is stable and thinned, more so with a harsh winter, coyotes, even this time of year with fawns, are a factor so its balanced with hunting/predation. I lean towards it being a good thing, planting forage given the situation here. The other thing is, they will stay close to houses and browse shrubs/trees, needle bearing types, so they become dependent or used to that, just because we are here. There are not many decent buck around, because others don't selectively harvest, they take anything, I don't, matter of a fact I have not taken a buck in years, just doe with issued permits, don't care about horns anyway, just meat for the freezer and to be made into sausage, franks and nice cuts to enjoy on the grill.
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