ORIGINAL: Sport 2
As for Car accidents and winter starvation - I don't think that the deer population would jump enough in 2 years majorly affect these concerns.
Are you serious?
Let's just take the 1,000,000 estimated deer pop in PA. Now let's pretend half is made up of breeding does, probably more but let's for this argument say half.
Now, 500,000 doe have 2 fawns, some have 3 or more, some have one, some none so on average lets say 2. So , 500,000 doe have 1,000,000 offspring, in one year you just doubled your population from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 deer. Now let's do it another year and you have 4,000,000 deer.
Now some of those numbers are a little outrages, perhaps not, but I think there is a point here, deer do 2 things, they eat, they breed. Eliminating doe season for just one year would have a huge affect on the herd in a negative way.