cayugad
I agree...
Sad to say I think it might take a bunch of hunters doing just what you said...stop buying licenses for awhile. Fact is I think that will happen, though more out of frustration than design. The hardcore hunters will still swallow hard and buy a license after a season like this. But the "good time Charlies"... the guys who go out in gun season to be with their buddies and shoot a deer or two...they might decide it is not worth it to go out, buy a license, spend two or three days in the timber or on a field, and see no deer. Lose them and you probably lose 25 percent of the gun hunters in the state.
You also raise a great point about the DNR not listening. This despite the fact that they always refer to hunters as their "primary deer management tool". Should this level of arrogance continue, herd management will have to rely on harsh winters or disease to keep the population in check.