I hope your success is as good as we've had here. You guys will be hamstrung a bit by the limit on your doe tags up there. It wouldnt have worked here with the one or two doe tags per hunter you can get up there. Does TL have DMAPS?

We started 12 years ago doing what the PGC is trying to do with the whole state. I realize it's an oversimplification to say it that way but the basic goal is the same. ObviouslyPA have run intosome snags by trying to manage a whole state this way but overall it has worked very well here on a small scale.

When I firstjoined that hunt, the bucks were big bodied with mostly nasty junky racks although there were some monsters as well. There were also plenty of old does. Some very old. Now the population is at a much more manageable number and we have a healthy herd without the extensive damage to the local landscaping and gardens.

One landowner I hunt for had over 150 rhododendrons around his house and not one had a single leaf below head height when I first met him. Now, his rhodys are leafed out and healthy. (He still cant keep hastas though) In the borough we hunt, they used to average almost 200 car/deer collisions each fall. Now it's around 20 or so. And yet we still have a good huntable population. My log shows 61 does since the start 12 years agoand I've also taken 4 good trophy bucks there. Most of those were in more recent years. A good friend in the program has similar results.

Sounds like you guys are on the right track.