Granted that pheasants did better during previous farming practice times, but no farmer is going to go back to those practices and the PGC cannot afford to convert tens of thousands of acres of SGLs into 1950-60s farming habitat either, just to tickle pheasant hunters' fancies. I am more concerned about native PA game species, than I am about imported critters. If they want to spend money on game birds, let it be grouse and quail.

Didn't say deer were plentiful everywhere. Deer were not plentiful everywhere 20, 30 or 40 years ago either. I hunt in 3A, mostly Tioga and Potter counties, but in an area that's a combination of farms, woodlots and with a bit of big woods in the area.

We don't have as many deer there as we had five years ago, but there are no shortage of such places now in that same boat. 40 years ago there were virtually no deer there, even though the habitat was there for them backthen.

City people built camps in the NC from the 1920s on, because it was beautiful country and because there were more deer there, than closer to the cities they lived near. Times change. Now in many cases, the deer are more plentiful closer to where NCcamp owners live. If hunters want to hunt deer badly enough, some of them will have to learn to love hunting them where the deerare.

When the NC habitat rebounds in areas where overabundant deer numbers had adversely affected it for years, I suspect deer numbers will come back as the habitat improves. But hopefully not to pre-HR numbers. I figure it's why the wizardswill continue to adjustthe allocations in areas like2G.