Even though the breeding and reproductive rates have increase in the traditionally poor area it still wasn’t enough to compensate for the near total collapse of the data coming from old high breeding and reproductive rates areas.
That is just pure nonsense. The 2006-2007 AWR shows that 136 doe were checked in 2B and 163 doe were checked in 5C. During the same period only 48 adult doe were checked in 2F and 62 were checked in 2G. the doe from 2B and 5C represent 21% of all the doe that were checked while they were only 9% of the 22 WMUs.
To help me prove that logic doesn’t work with some people, how about you explaining to everyone why having more a better buck/doe ratio would result in declining breeding rates or how fewer deer and more food per deer would result in declining reproductive or breeding rates. Just explain to everyone how a person capable of logical thoughts would explain the declining breeding and reproductive rates you want to believe has occurred, if it really were anything other then a change in the sample sizes.
You always told us to listen to the deer. It doesn't matter what I think the cause of the decreased breeding rates might be,because the deer may not agree. But, the answer is obvious and i have posted it in the past and it is a shame that you missed it. Even a rank rookie to deer management issues should know the answer ,but your obvious bias prevents you from thinking rationally.