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Old 02-24-2003 | 02:11 PM
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No Im not a warrden, although I have great respect for the good ones. Like all LEO' s most of them are good and there are those that lack common sense and are inflexible or all puffed up. The good thing is there are very few other those.
I think there are to many idiots, beer drinkers and weekend warriors in the woods that screw it up for the rest or majority of the hunters. The only way to improve the group is through education and enforcement. For some, education is a lost cause. They already know it all or don' t care. Those are the ones we need more enforcers to deal with and help from the rest of the hunting community.

The buck doe ratio is something that can not be reached on a state wide level and maintained like it is in a high fenced program. It is a only a target number that makes population control and range management less difficult. I like the 1 buck to 3 doe ratio because it would provide for a realistic deer population state wide that would be easier to manage. It would improve the quality of the hunting. You' d still be able to or have to harvest does and the Bucks would get a chance to grow and compete for breeding. That improves the health and quaility of the herd. Im not exactly sure where got the number from. I read a lot about quality management and other deer management items and I picked it up there.

I did forget one thing I' d like to see changed.
Tree stands. Tree stands are no different than ice shanties. I' d like to be able to leave them over night in the woods on public land. I could see having to have a label with name and all that on the stand visible from the ground. And it would give the hunter no special right to the spot, it would just be easier and more efficient for the hunter. They do it in other states with little or no problem, why not here.
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