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Lots of Cradeigns[[?]] on both areas in morning in openings & great thickets in some places.

date.  No damage to wild life.  On the contrary additional sprout growth will make desirable deer feed needed here.  Hemlock browsed as high as deer can reach & all little hemlocks stripped.  Viburnum browsed back to 1/4 inch twigs & rubus & witch hazel eaten to same extent.
Then went [[strikethrough]] east[[\strikethrough]] west of Renova to hilltop into a rather open Pine Oaks type of forest about old town of Biturness.  Stand improvement consisted in cutting out diseased & dead trees.  Already too gone to produce good timber.  Quite a lot of cornus present.  Some rubus, lots of huckleberries & wintergreen.
Deer browsing evident on hemlock, white pine maple, oak & laurel.  Not good winter deer area.
Left Mr Troy[[?]] & went to Emporiam and met Mr. Chas Bair who took us out over his ranger district of 175000 acres.  This consists of good northern hardwoods on bottoms and the top we saw was recently burned & corning heavily to aspen & pin cherry.  Some cornus & some oak but not much.  Beech maple & Yellow birch on the bottom.  Deer browsing very evident everywhere we went.  Maple & Viburnum hit hardest.  In plantations on burns, white pine, spruce, hemlock & larch browsed to point of destruction by deer.  Browse fully utilized in this area, sumac, aspen & willow eaten back to large twigs in most places.  Plantings entirely ruined.  Deer tracks & droppings everywhere.
A short distance away from this planting we counted 26 deer on a half mile of open brush hillside & probably did not see more than half of them.  Saw two