ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr

I agree with your idea of requiring every hunter to submit a hunting report card at the end of the season, or to do so online. I propose that the penalty for this would be that an individual not submitting a hunting report would not be allowed to purchase a hunting license for the following year.

Further, I agree with you that there are idiots on both sides of the AR/HR debate. It should be past debate now. We have AR, and we have also reduced the herd. Perhaps it was for good reason and perhaps not. Some on both sides of that question are also idiots.

While nobody who read the entire Audubon report, or any of the tremendous volume of literature other than that on the subject, would deny that there are problems in our forests, there are those who simply don't care. All they want is to be able to kill a deer, any deer, with the least amount of effort. Those days are gone. If you want to be a successful hunter it will take real effort coupled with a good bit of luck. I don't fear this, nor should you. What you should fear is the mentality that the forests are there to produce deer for hunters and the rest of the ecosystem can go to he11. This view is worse than shortsighted, but many hold it, and will hold the blame commission hostage until they get what they want. That is what I fear, not harder hunting, my friend.