ORIGINAL: fellas2
Once again RSB,what is your definition of significant improvement ? If it is sacrificing 50% of our yearly harvest for a few bigger sets of horns(which by the way is highly debatable) them that may be your definition but not that of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of hunters across this state.If the program you speak so highly of is so sucessfull,why are our license sales decreasing at 2.5 times the national average ? If it's so sucessfull,why the lawsuits,the audits,and the complete and utter chaos it has caused among the ranks of hunters in this state ? If it is so sucessfull,why must you defend it strongly ? Could it possibly be that you don;t have as much faith in it as you put on,or have the pencil pushers,the big whigs,and tree huggers numbedyou to reality ?
The significant improvement would be having habitat and food that will support more deer then the low numbers that can be sustained in the depleted habitat that has made up so much of the traditional deer range.
As for law suits and the stories about how hunters are dropping out of the sport I suspect that is just a bunch of hype that is only half true to start with. Other then the law suit and that is being brought forward by a bunch of nincompoops that have never been anything but a bunch of rebels and radicals that have continuously refused to learn anything about deer or the way nature really works.
R.S. Bodenhorn