Why would you do all the habitat work knowing as you claim the herd was reduced by 50%. Where did you get the 50% from. Cut and paste it here so we can see your math.
I started the habitat improvement over 20 years ago, long before there was any talk of reducing our herd to 6 DPSM. The 50% reduction in the Northampton Co. came from a graph published by the PGC and it is not available on the net. It was also posted on another MB ,but I can't find it. Maybe T-PA can locate it and post it. The herd peaked at 64 DPFSM in 1999 and dropped to 29 DPFSM in 2002.
BTW the only math involved was 29/64 =.44 so the actual reduction was 56%.
Here is a link to the graph I referrred to.
http://www.huntingpa.com/ubbthreads/...page=4&fpart=1