ORIGINAL: M.Hensler/PA
I'm kind of confused about the numbers here...that adjustment that is indicated in red begins in 1986, and the numbers drastically increase compared to the previous years trends (1985 had ~161,000 total harvests, and then in 1986, it's up to ~300,000?) How were these adjusments made? Was there a steady decline in reported hunter success in the years preceding? The numbers don't indicate that, yet after the adjustments are made, why such a drastic increase?
That's when they started the calculated harvest, looks like there were a lot of lazy hunters.