The doe allocations were dropped considerably after only two years in many cases yet the herd has not rebounded. The problem lies with fawn recruitment and the root cause is not the much reduced doe tag allocations
In 2001 when we had 1.5 M PS deer they allocated 780K antlerless tags. After the herd had been reduced by 30-40% they issued 869,000 tags ,plus 20-30K DMAP tags in 2007. The only reason we have much lower fawn recruitment is because we have harvested too many doe.