Statewide they might have. The sample size from the Southwest and Southeast areas of the state, where the traditionally highest breeding and reproductive rates have always occurred, continued to decline during that time as well.
If that is true than the shift in sample location would have even less effect . You keep digging your hole deeper with every post. Can you explain why breeding rates would decline after ARs and HR in the SW. You can't blame it on the coefficient of variation because the PGC is using 3 year averages and the decline is following a consistent trend downward.