All animals are important. I believe that game animals are the PGC's primary concern.

I'm sure other state's wildlife agencies also do much to help their nongame species.

I too would like to know wco/sqmile in those western states. I'd tend to believe that PA has more WCO's and deputys. Especially when you look at those hugeareas of roadless land out there.

I know other agencies get goverment funding but if the PGC gets the license increase they want, what will be their excuse then.

Those other states certainly have their hands full with the variey of big and small game they have to manage.

I'm also sure other states have their public relations problems, but did you notice any in this NORTHEAST FORUM involving other states?

What about the other FORUMS on this site. Do they get threads with hunters complaining about their Game agencies, with this many hits?

You seem to think that the public relations problems the PGC has is comparable with other states. I think you are a little off.

I feel the PGC has a spending problem as much as a revenue problem.

With todays gas prices, they don't need full size vehicles. They need to spend all day riding around either. It would be nice if they did a little walking back off of the road once in a while. Maybe they could locate where all those deer are that are supposed to be there. From the looks of some of those overweight WCO's, i've seen, they could use the exercise too.


They could also timber a bit more in some of the northern WMU's, sell the timber and it would help with the regeneration. I heard somewhere on here that they were only allowed to timber so many acres a year. Maybe they should look at that.

If you look at the forrest overbrowseing problem up north. That was the PGC's fault there. Years ago when there was a overpopulation of deer there, the PGC stuck to the one deer per year limit.

Their job was to manage the deer herd to prevent such things and they failed to do their job. Now we are dealing with the problem of the carrying capacity being reduced, because of the overbrowseing years ago.

While PA use to have the 1 deer per year limit, other states were allowing multiple deer per year. That was why I started hunting West Virginia, because after I tagged a deer in archery, I was done in PA.

I didn't see other states letting their forests being overbrowsed years ago, causing the big issues we have today. I just think they dropped the ball in too many areas.