Doug, the agency always seems to have an excuse. They don't spew excuses when it come to Elk Habitat. I guess that's because sooooo many Pennsylvania elk hunters are in agreement.

All I can say is that when a land manager has better than 65,000 acres of Game Lands to manage and only 4 or 5 workers on his staff, he really can't get a whole lot done. It's not the land managers fault. The fault lies at the feet of the Executive group in control of major funding, operations and planning. Those are executive duties. That cannot be denied.

It's obvious that you are living in a blessed area. Unfortunately some or should I say a lot of we PA hunters are not. Humble yourself to at least acknowledge that some of us can't travel great distances and some of us have commitments to camps that we've sunk many dollars and time into.

I believe the deer numbers will come back, andwith a vengence. Once again the agency will come under fire and this time for having far too many deer in every corner of the state. Only when that happens they will have driven and discouraged many hunters out of the sport and there will only be "Alpha" hunters to do the killing.
Do you think there are enough of you "A"s to do the job?