Decline in junior license sales are due in a large part to the following.....
1. Growing anti-hunting sentiment in public, schools, etc.
2. Computers
3. Video games
4. Parents having to work longer to make ends meet
Junior license sales were increasing until 2004.
Instant gratification is the name of the game today. Every hunter wants a perfectly balanced herd, that is HUGE enough to take a buck and a doe in a matter of minutes. It just doesn`t work that way.
It wasn't that way in the past and it's not that way today. The vast majority of the hunters know that only 15-20% of buck hunters kill a buck each year.
There are not enough management units to do the job correctly. Unfortunately, our own ranks cried like little girls and ran the best guy we had out of Dodge before he could get everything he wanted in the management of our deer herd.
Alt was not qualified to manage the herd in PA since he didn't even know the B/D ratio or the cause of late breeding. He was just a figure head and a pitchman for the push to reduce the herd.