ORIGINAL: germain
thank-you BT.
DDEAR,do you have any info on how the PGC will determine the owdd?Or how this will take more manpower?
According to Dr. R. the PGC will no longer calculate OWDD's or use OWDD goals . Instead they are in the process of developing an entirely new management system as outline in this quote from Dr. R.
Implementing the current deer management plan will involve development of new measures to assess management goals. The PGC is developing a new deer population monitoring system that will use quantifiable measures to determine if deer populations are at healthy and socially acceptable densities.
These measures may include hunter success, deer-human interactions and habitat inventories, as well as measurements of deer productivity and densities.
These measures will be used to correlate with and track the agency's efforts to either raise or lower deer numbers.
Note that the plan includes habitat inventories which will have to be conducted yearly in order to determine the effects of the previous years harvests. Before, they simply used the USFS aerial surveys to determine the number of SM's of each class of forest habitat there was in each WMU . Now they will need the manpower to conduct habitat inventories in enough areas of each WMU to determine the average condition of the habitat.
Since they are also going to use deer-human interactions, they will need to compile data on deer/car collisons, crop damage complaints, and home owners complaints . This will also require additional staff to collect and imput the data and to develop a plan to factor in this information when determining future anterless allocations.