RE: Pa Game Comm. Overhaul
"What is obvious to any one that has the capacity of logical thought process and willing to look at all of the facts is that the deer herd in unit 2G is low even though the hunters have harvested fewer and fewer and fewer deer in that unit for about the past fifteen years."
It takes a smaller and smaller harvest to keep a herd stable or to reduce it as the size of the herd declines. Even the most illogical should be able to realize it take a much smaller harvest to reduce a herd of say for example10,000 than it would 30,000!!
"That was an excuse for the extreme reduction.If the deer herd is reducing its own numbers of it nature is reducing the herd through natural causes it obviously because the area can’t support more deer under the present natural conditions. "
Why shouldwe believe that when the herd health rating for the wmu is not poor, and the rest of the state also was reduced further than needed by far, and that wasnt the couldnt be the excuse and in some instances none at all exists. Makes it kind of hard to blindly accept unproven theories thrown about casually by eco-extreme minded individuals.
"Now perhaps since you figure you are smarter then nature"
What exactly designates nature as "intelligent" or not?Sounds like a radical "eco-extremist" viewpoint imho. Not sure if you have any "ties" to any of the more obtuse thinking eco-groups like Audubon etc., and wouldnt expect you to admit it if you did, but,many of your statements and extremist views point towards that possible deduction.
"Then explain why hunters can harvest three and four times as many does in the unit that makes up and surrounds the city of Pittsburgh for over fifteen years and the deer populations there can continue to increase if that isn’t a result of habitat that can sustain more deer."
The herd therehasnt continued to increase. And there are and have been 3-4 times as many deer there which means 3 to 4 times as much recruitment, which means ittakes that much more harvest to stabilize or reduce the herd.
The reason of course is that the numbers of tags in the past havent been as efficient in the urban areas do to all the access issues that allow the off limits lands to be "deer factories" whereas the areas of the huge public land tracts of the north, never had that luxury.
"Explain why hunters can harvest two to four times as many does in the metropolitan units of 2A, 2B and 2D then they can in the big woods forested areas year after year for more then a decade if it isn’t habitat related and it isn't habitat that influences and controls the fawn birth and survival rates? "
2A ISNT a "METROPOLITAN UNIT" by any stretch of the imagination! Its rural, and not one large city, or even city suburbsin it. (LOL)[8D] Its farm country and reverting farm country. Its about as far from urban as you can get in Western Pa! (LOL) Just shows your knowledge leveloutside of your little area. Also 2Ahas hadcomparatively short period of very high harvests. Its not a sra and the result arent like them either. The harvests have also led to an over 50% ow herd decline. Far more than needed and absolutely rediculous. The harvests of the reduction years are absolutely unsustainable. An all time high allocation last yearonly led toa several years low harvest shows beyond doubt. And the allocation and harvest goal of 18,000 which was supposed to hold the herd "stable" the lastfew years straight, yet only 16500 reduced the herd previously, shows the complete and total deceit on Pgcs part. I guess when we get reduced abit further and not only most here, as currently, but when noone finds the continued reductions acceptable, I guess habitat will also be our limiting factor as the excuse! (LOL)
Even though we are some of the best habitat type in the state, and never rated as poor herd or habitat health even though we had over twice as many ow deer, and human conflict rated as "low"by pgc themselves.
Its a sham rsb. Plain and simple.Loyalty is an admirable trait in an employee, but blind loyalty isnt gonna do anyone any good with our sport or deer herd.[:'(]
You might also be a bit more careful where, or at what exactly you point the finger towards when attempting to make a point. Such lack of forethought only serves to make one look extremely foolish, and all the "twisting" in the world aint gonna help with that one.(LOL).