And the significance of this is?
It means that the majority of the dominant 3.5 breeding buck will be inferior buck that weren't AR legal as 2.5+ buck. This is the exact opposite of natural selection and has the potential to negatively effect the gene pool.
Alt said at the Audubon Conference that if there were x number of doe in the conference room PA hunters would shoot out the windows and doors and the doe would escape alive ,or something to that effect. Alt certainly didn't appreciate the ability of PA hunters to control the herd since we reduced the herd much faster than he expected.