WE all like ddear!
The true carrying capacity of the land varys so much from one area to another they can never be a set number of deer every where.With alot of small farms being turned in to housing deer are losing alot of ground fast.
Our area in the north west could support more deer than we have now.Most land here is private & most is posted because we don't want the does slaughtered.One of the questions I have with the QDM people is why you would want a 1 to 1 ratio of bucks to does on your land.Once that doe is bred your buck heads to my woods where we guard the does.Its kind of like "the build it and they will come" idea.

As far as antler restrictions ,the deer hunter in me likes them but it is not fair to the average joe that hunts deer 2.5 days per year.AR were put in place as a bait & switch idea by the great one.Kill all the does and you will be rewarded with wall hanger bucks. ddear posts alot of #s to prove that the buck kill is down & it is, but that is because of the over all drop in dear numbers.I think the kill reports do not tell the true story in the success of AR because once a buck lives through a full year as an adult their habits change dramaticly .Dear seasons are long with archery,early ML regular rifle, late archery & ml a buck that lives through this is a lot smarter next year & every year after that these dear become very hard to kill.

The PGC 100 year forestry plan is one of the worst ever.We are loosing millions of dollars by not harvesting these trees.This timber should be cut at least three times in 100 years.A younger forest would be beneficial to all wildlife.