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I must sayI concur with you Rob.
Here's more.....The seasons are held in the fall for a real reason, and not because the GC doesn't want us sweatin' out there. We reduce the herd every year going into winter to allow more browse per animal to assist in the wintering survival. We call this the OW herd (overwintering). To allow a OW herd of 2 million or more would result in MASSIVE dieoffs among other things. In a hard winter, deer are driven into the low coniferous areas for shelter from deep snow, ice and so on. Can you imagine the nightmare we would experience with a herd of 3 to 4 times the size we have now? Any idea of the disease that would result from such an irresponsible act? I can tell you this: In an average winter, we would lose many more deer than the increase we were trying to achieve. Deer breed like rats. Sorry but true. We care a whole lot more for deer though and any conservationist with any brains would never let a thing like this happen. We have had hard winters in the distant past where we lost almost the entire herd and hunting was suspended for some time. Who is going to clean up the rotting mess in this state when 2 to 3 million deer are rotting come spring? If we were to foolishly goof with the carrying capacity to that extreme, old Ma' Nature would fix things eventually.