Anyone ever notice that over the past 20-30 years we have become a society that analyzes and over analyzes everything from soup to nuts.
For many years in this state we as hunters and the deer population itself has done just fine.But once again,as a society that believes it knows
everthing about everything,have taken the deer population management to a new level of complication.Do all the supposed studies you want,hire all the overpaid college degree biologists you want,put all the restrictions,constantly change the seasons and bag limits,spend all the hunters money you can steal,and when push comes to shove,there just ain't the deer there used to be.I've hunted in 6 different WMU's over the past 2 decades and they aren't there,period.EHD runs rampant in 2A last summer and fall with no way of telling how many were affected,but they continued to issue antlerless licenses until they sold their 60,000.They do nothing to promote habitat growth in the northern counties where deer are almost non-existant,yet continue to try to decimate the herd in the south where the "human" element is involved.Mother nature has done a fine job for thousands of years without the our help but we insist on intervening at every turn and at every whim of some tree hugger,insurance company,or politician that feels it necessary to do what nature has always taken care of.