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Worth repeating, Holmes is 100% correct:

"We’re experiencing intensive harvest across the board on state and county lands right now,” said Holmes, and she said that has eliminated a lot of snow shelter on most public lands in the area.

While timber harvests can provide deer with plentiful browse for the first year or two after cutting, wildlife managers note that the value of such sites for most wildlife rapidly diminishes as the young aspen and other browse quickly gets out of reach of deer. Such open sites provide deer little or no protection from cold or wind."

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