At 1% cutting on the public land it is unlikely the percentage of pole timber across the state will never be much greater then it is right now. It will be monitored though and should that ever be a concern it will be adjusted so less or more can be cut.
We currently have 56% of our forests in the saw timber stage because of the wide spread timbering of large areas around 1900. The goal of harvesting 1% /yr. is to reduce the amount of saw timber and increase the percentage of the other two age classes. With that in mind, please tell everyone what the percentage of our forests would be in each stage class if they had harvested 1%/ year starting in 1900.
That has been explained for you and others many times in the past. You just don’t like to accept the facts because they don’t fit what you want to believe.
The fact is that the breeding rates have only declined in a statewide level and then only because the areas of the highest samples shifted from before to since the inception of antler restriction
No, you did not provide an explanation, you provided a very lame excuse that made no sense. ARs and HR were implemented in all WMU's therefore the breeding rates and productivity should have increased in every WMU. To claim that the statewide rates dropped 6% means that many individual WMUs would have had to drop more that 6% , to offset the WMUs where breeding rates increased. Since all but one WMU is at its goal for herd health, it is obvious there wasn't a significant drop in breeding rates in many WMU to account the the 6% statewide decrease.
The PGC compensated for the change in sample size by using 3 year averages, but the breeding rates still show a significant decrease. The truth is breeding rates decreased instead of increasing as you and Alt predicted and now you can't handle the truth or explain why it happened.
Now,if you want to prove to everyone that you are right and that I don't know what I am talking about, just list 10 WMUs where the breeding rate decreased by over 6%, for whatever reason? It would take an even decrease if the breeding rates improved in the other 12 WMUs . I predict that instead of supporting your position with the facts, you will come back with more smoke and mirror excuses.