Thread: Effect of logging on animal numbers in forestry blocks

As others have said you are wasting your time, if it was adjoining a large area of unfelled trees you might catch one on the edges first thing in the morning or last light. As others have also said production forestry gets sprayed before replanting so it will take a year or two before anything is edible again.

now wallabies on the other hand absolutely LOVE country in that state...spotlighting forestry block with young trees like that is mind blowing.

Our cut overs riddled with deer and goats but as mentioned earlier since it's being sprayed a month or so ago numbers are less in their they also have pretty handy native cover near by though but they do get caught out in the middle way out in the open

Hunt places like this for my work (forestry deer control).

I'd say a thermal is mandatory (if legal), use before first light and spot em, get into position before they move back to cover.

With broken ground like that, you won't find anything there during daylight hours.

As mentioned by many, that area will be hard work during the day at present. Worth looking for sign of repeated travel/trails. Concentrate on areas that border farmland/crops etc especially if they have a block of mature native. Once the pines are 6ft or so (2years) the deer will happily return and feed during the day if not pressured much.