ORIGINAL: bluebird2
I wonder when RSB is going to list the WMU's where the breeding rates decreased by more than 5%. That had to happen if breeding rates increased in most WMUs.
I’ve already explained that several times too.
There doesn’t have to be a decline in any individual management unit to have a decline in the statewide result when there was such a HUGE shift in sample size between the best to worst breeding rates areas.
Besides there is a more then a 13% coefficient of variance when examining or evaluating less then three years of data in a data set. Therefore, looking at it in the one year intervals, for the statewide data as you are, there actually might not even be much of a decline in those statewide results.
You are simply grasping at straws and really have no facts that support your opinions or misguided agenda.
Try explaining to everyone how having a better buck/doe ratio and better habitat lead to declining breeding and reproductive rates.
R.S. Bodenhorn