Gary Alt spearheaded very little. He was a frontman and little else imho.

At first I thought he was a good guy for the job, charismatic, a decent speaker, seemingly sincere.

Then toward the end, started finding out he was tighter than two coats of paint with groups like Audubon etc. They still speak of him VERY highly to this day. A web search for audubon and Gary Alt will confirm that for any doubters.

He also started to become over the top. With wild claims of absolutely impossible buck to doe ratios that never existed. Made rediculous statements like "When I saw the shape the forest was in it drove me to my knees!"[:'(][:'(] Even though he had been a biologist and in those forests for DECADES prior to that! He also began demanding that we have ALTERNATIVE funding to remove hunters as far as possible from the decision making, and so reductions could go to extremes unabated.

When Alt left, he said he was doing so because of political pressure and he felt pgc was not "staying the course" in the way of reduction. Even though, at the time, the allocation was still EXTREMELY high.

After seeing all this and more, enough was enough. The guy was a straight up kook, and his leaving was one of the very few bright spots that can be pointed to in the last several years as far as anything about deer management in Pa is concerned.