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Old 12-20-2008, 02:36 PM
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bluebird2
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Default RE: Rifle season 2008 is history

The median embryos per doe for that time period is 1.57 and the median percent of does bred is 89.4 I dont quite know how to help you understand that these are normal fluctuations but it's kind of obvious that you only wish to understand your own ill conceived notions of how you think things ought to be.

Funny how more complete facts seem to water down your argument!
If BTB had even the most basic understanding of deer management issues he would have simply explained why breeding rates and productivity decreased. Instead he tried to manipulate the data to to support his claim the neither factor decreased ,even though the downward trend should be obvious even to the most bias PGC supporter.

Instead of denying reality ,BTB should be praising the PGC for how well the plan worked. They wanted to reduce recruitment and that is exactly what happened. Of course ,in order to accomplish this they had to lie to the hunters and tell them that breeding rates and productivity would increase due to ARs and a healthier herd. But they knew all along that reducing the herd would reduce the average age of the doe herd which would result in lower productivity and lower breeding rates,since older doe have higher breeding rates and higher numbers of embryos/doe than younger doe.
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