But they aren't studying harvest trends, they are studying the effects of a reduced season. Since the number of tags required to harvest a deer increases as the herd is reduced , don't you think they need to know how much the herd has been reduced? Also, have you noticed the PGC is hiding the extent to which HR has occurred? Suddenly they don't want to talk about the benefits of HR, and BTW, those benefits never happened. didn't happen.

What's even crazier is that they already know what the effect of a shorter season will be. For many years we had a 3 day season and then in 2000 we had a 4 day season and fewer tags produced a much higher antlerless harvest of 302K. Then in 2001 they reduced the tags even more and went with the concurrent season and the antleress harvest drop 283K. Then they increased the tags to 1M+ and the harvest increased to 352K. So they have all the info they need and are just playing silly games to make some hunters believe that they care.