ORIGINAL: lungbuster12point06

Now it would seem the majority here says they are seeing and shooting fewer deer, those of you seeing more deer are most likely in zones where there either is no EAB or has not been EAB for more than a season or two...........like I said before EAB has it's place, but to go state wide with it in areas where the population is already severely low would be pretty much eradicating the herd there.........as far as I'm concerned seeing more deer does not = a better hunt, but seeing a major loss in the doe population over an entire season has me very concerend that the deer herd around me is going to be very low the next few years, possibly to the point that I will need to stop hunting it for a couple years to allow it to build back up.And even then it will take a number of years to establish what I have worked for since 1989 in terms of QDM................the DNR is ruining our deer herd and we are blindly sitting by letting them do it!