My primary point is that fragment forest habitat can support a lot more deer than contiguos forest habitat. The PGC assigns the same OWDD to a SM of pole timber in Potter Co. as it does to a SM of pole timber in Berks Co. that is spread over 2 or 3 SM of land area and that simply makes no sense and results in much lower OWDD's in WMU's like 5 B and 5 C ,than are necessary.

My secondary point that relates directly to this thread is that, as the herd is reduced ,it takes lower anterless allocations to reduce the herd even more. Therefore, the recent reduction in the anterless tags does not mean that the PGC has changed their plan to reduce the herd by 50% from what it was in 2003.