Of course the harvesting involves planning like anything else. In the north if you was to harvest in a deer wintering yard area in the cold of winter, the deer may eat for a spell off some tops until the snow gets deep and they can't get to it any more. Then the cold would overwhelm them and they freeze to death along with getting hungry. Cold expels a lot of body heat. With a wintering area, the cover is mature softwoods with tolerant hardwood undergrowth. The softwood canopy provides thermal cover and the deer make paths/yards through it under the larger tree crowns where snow death is shallower. Up here they do not go into clear cuts or large openings in the deep snow and cold weather. They will venture out in an active harvest area on the trails. Their coats are a lot heavier up here right now than I see in the recent hunting pictures.
