ORIGINAL: M.Hensler/PA
I'm not sure where you got those numbers for? Care to provide a link? If they're even close to accurate with the adjustments, it's clear doe harvest have increased drastically starting in the 90s, before QDM and the bonus seasons, but the largest harvests were after QDM went into effect (which is expected given the additional seasons).
RSB, could you provide me a link to your numbers you've been giving in previous posts? Plus what's the PGC's feeling about 2G's deer population? I would assume the much lower allocation is an indicator of something, considering that's a much lower allocation than most of the other WMUs.
Actually I can not provide a link since it is not on a web page. It is in my computer based on the deer harvests relative to the amount of land mass in the various Counties, Regions and wildlife management units.
Yes, the lower allocation in unit 2G does have significance based on the fact that it is obvious that the deer population in the unit is lower then it has been in any recent years or perhaps anytime in our lifetime.
There are other influencing factors that are also being evaluated though, such as the habitat conditions and what influence that has on the health of the deer herd. Right now they have backed off of the harvests in the unit until some of those other factors can be more closely evaluated.
Contrary to what some people would have you thinking and believing the professional wildlife managers are trying to do what is best for the future of both the deer herd and the hunters. Sometimes though what is best for both the deer and hunter has to provide primary consideration to the year round food supply needed to support more deer or even in some cases fewer deer.
The total picture is a lot more complex then just saying if we don’t shoot so many of them there will be more deer. In reality it just doesn’t work that way, at least for more then very short term.