The PGC is responsible for the management of all animals in this state.For you to say that they spend no money on deershows how clueless you really are.They've done numerous studies over the past several years and they're doing some as I type this,some in your area.They also spend money on habitat improvements which benefits the deer as well as other wildlife.You also have to remember that different organizations and consevancies donate alot of the money used for these projects.What more would you like them to do with their limited budget?

Why do you have deer on your property?I don't know.How many deer are there and how much property do you own?I thought the poachers snuck on your property and killed them all.Isn't that what you posted about a week ago?In order for their to be a significant difference between the number of deer on your property and state property,you'd have to control hundreds of acres,even if you did significant habitat improvements.I would think a guy like you who's always slamming the PGC for their lack of effort on the habitat would have taken it upon yourself to do significant work on your land.How much of your property is food plots and how much clearcutting have you done?Do you feed the deer?

I find it extremely hard to believe that there's no deer on the state forest land if the habitat is good.We have plenty of deer on the state game lands around here because the habitat is better.Some of the state forest land also has alot of deer where the habitat is better.There's also places on the state forest land where you'd be lucky to cut a track but the habitat is so bad,I don't know why a deer would be there or why anyone would bother hunting there.We have just as much public land as you do and most likely just as much pressure.In fact we probably get more even pressure because the terrain around here is not nearly as rough as it is in the sproul.On top of that,it's hard to get more than a mile of the road in most places because we have so many state forest roads.We get hit hard around here,we have alot of bears and coyotes yet we still have plenty of deer.

You can't tell me all of the Sproul gets hunted hard.I don't have complete faith in the hunter movement study that they did there because it's not a good example of what happens accross the whole state.It did show that in the sproul,vast areas essentially go unhuntedso the hunters aren't controlling the herd,even though it's been declining.No,I'm not saying hunters are lazy or worthlesss in this case.I drive through that area several times a year and I'd be reluctant to travel back in several of those huge steep ravines to drag a doe out.It does show that hunters aren't having the biggest impact on the declining herd in that area.