" The most recent flap involved funding for several research studies into the habits of deer. Most are being funded not with sportsmen' s dollars but with over $1 million from five private groups.Both Mohr and Bolgiano say they have not been told which environmental groups are underwriting the work, besides the National Audubon Society." Gary has never told us where the money has come from,' ' Mohr said this morning. " I, as a commissioner, have no idea who is paying for our deer studies."

Just imagine, the work is funded by a group of anti hunting
lobbies and they will then try to pass this " success" off to every other state. Yeah, knockdown the deerherd to so and so level and the remaining bucks will have huge racks and their won' t be anymore overpopulation. Of course it will also mean there won' t be enough deer for everyone to hunt and we' ll have to end up going to a permit/lottery type system that will probably decimate hunting as we know it. The fact that the guy wouldn' t say who funded the research should be raising serious flags in every hunter' s mind. Call me pessimistic, but it seems the outcome of every " Scientific research study" seems to depend entirely on who is funding it.