Rsb, your very selective and deceptive groupings of years and comparing is absolutely rediculous. To show the herd decline in 2A quite vividly all you need do is look at the buck harvest as Rosenberry has stated is a viable way to see herd trends...

The harvests by county for Greene (since data doesnt exist on the wmu level for previous years) are these;

2000--------4400
2001--------4196
2002--------3956
2003--------2200

And although county harvest figures were no longer available after that (damage control effort of pgc) on their annual report, into the follow year was yet another herd decline. So it didnt get any better from there. The table 8 on the 2007 annual report shows declines to the herd itselfin 2004 and 2005 as well. Also since 2003, the antlerless allocations have been raised from 45k all the way to 55k and even 60k one season. Those buck harvests also support the pgc deer density estimates which show a 50+% decline in overwinter herds since 1999.

That is but one county in 2A. Lets look at Washington buck harvests...

2000-----------6496
2001-----------6225
2002-----------3743
2003-----------4670

And again, the unit as a whole had decline the following year to the buck herd according to pgc annual report, and the allcations rose very significantly since, although STABILIZATION was the rediculous claim. Even now, that last year we harvested less buck in the entire wmu as we did in ONE COUNTY previously.