A high antlerless harvest definately reduced the herd.I'll never disagree with that.However,those two winters definately had a big effect on the herd around here.It will turn right back around over the next couple of years.

There isn't one area where I hunt that the dd is even close to 8.5 dpsm.I'd be willing to wage a bet that very few areas are that low and the FLIR proved that last year.Flir shows a minimum deer density and very few places came up with less than 10 dpsm.The one area,Hicks run,had somewhere around 9 dpsm.I familiar with that area and it's steep,rugged and has terrible habitat.It doesn't surprise me one bit that they only came up with that many deer.You keep leaving out the fact that the numbers from that annual report are minimum deer densities for 2G.They never said 2gaveraged 12 dpsm.