There are some areas where the deer herds are way down from a decade ago. The USP types, of course, blame the PGC and the doe tag allocations. Sometimes that is part of it. The other causes include poor habitat and predation. A doe mortality study in North central PA (the area causing the most controversy) of collared does showed hunters killed only 8% and 15% in consecutive years of those does in the study. The scientists running the study acknowledged that collared does might less somewhat less likely to be shot by hunters but it still points out that hunting isn't the only thing killing the deer off.

A problem that does actaully exist is that virtually every WMU has pockets of land that are either overharvested or undeharvested. Private land and accessability has a lot to do with that and that particularproblem may never be solveable.

The only thing the USP lawsuit is likely to accomplish is to divert time and resources from the real problems we have in this state.