RE: Pa Game Comm. Overhaul
"All of your comments are so far off base they could only have come from someone who is completely clueless of even the most basic principles of nature or wildlife management."
Rsb, you know better than that and that is a pathetic tasteless attempt at discrediting someone whom you cannot counter with facts.You do this continually andits nothing more than a desparation tactic that doesntsupport your argument any more than the facts do.
"First of all the herd and habitat are not healthy."
Very few area of the stateare they ratedpoor. Many areas never were, and thats giving the benefit of adoubt and assuming the pgc habitat assessments are worth thepaper their written on. Id also suggest you familiarize yourself with the pgc annual reports that contain the herd health analysis. Looks pretty good to them apparently.
"It is very likely that the hear is only showing good health indicators right now because we have had another couple of mild winter years that come with ideal environmental conditions."
Hmmm. Thats interesting. Id seen you use another excuse on another board.. I believeit was that more data was comingfrom different areas of the state. That was dismissed, so now I guess the"weather" is now what you wannahang your hat on?
"Lets just wait and see how the herd health indicators look following a couple of those harsh winter years and see if you can sing that same tune. "
No. Lets not. Ive hunted for quite awhile now, and have seen bad winter come and go. Fact of the matter is, that scare tactic is nothing but just that.
"The second thing that proves you are clueless is that none of the northern tier is geared toward further herd reduction at his time and hasn’t been fro the past couple of years."
Im not clueless. Ive heard thatline. Most of the state is supposed to be in stabilization mode. The doetags tell a different tale. Lipservice is all it is.Look to other areas as well...Look at 2A...herd was reduced 7%according to pgc onI belive the 2004 annual report and that was with a 16,500 antlerless harvest using 45,000 tags. The goal since has been 18,000 antlerless harvest and the tags from 55k to 60k...!!! And we were SUPPOSEDLY IN STABILIZATION MODE!? Yeah right... Dont insult us.
"Once the habitat will support more deer there will be more deer and hunters will not be able to over harvest them where they truly do have suitable habitat."
Sorry, but thats utterly rediculous. Unless you are anticipating our hunter numbers CONTINUING to drop at over double the national average forseveral more years thanks to no change of direction with our "plan", then I guess I could agree with that statement.