Your analysis is flawed because the decrease in the percentage of adult doe in the harvest started in 2005 ,not 2004. Furthermore ,breeding rates were at there high in 2003 so there is no reason to expect the ratio of fawns to adult doe would change. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is the percentage of adult doe in the herd decreased ,so more hunters filled their tags with fawns.
You keep trying to shoot down my theory ,yet you have no rational answer of your own to explain such a significant decrease in such a short time when the exact opposite was to be expected.
I have always credited you with being of above average intelligence and then using that intelligence in a misguided direction due to a misguided agenda. From your lack of understanding of the percentages in that annual report I am now reconsidering my previous thinking at least as it relates to you level of mathematical capability.
Surely you are not so simple as to not understand how the change in the number of fawns in annual antler less harvest also changes the percentage for all of those ages and the sex class of juvenile male and juvenile female. Any unbiased and logically thinking person would also realize that the number of juvenile deer in any annual harvest will be very dependant on the number of fawn in existence. Surely even the village idiot could figure out that during the years when the majority of the fawns died right after being born there would be fewer fawn in the fall harvest. I sort of figure that anyone of even average intelligence would also figure out that during those years when there were fewer fawns available to be harvested the adult does harvested would make a higher percentage of the total harvest. Come on man you aren’t that dense, or are you?
And, I am not trying to shoot anything down that has any bases of fact in it. I am simply trying to help people see the difference between what is real and what is just speculation or myth coming from people with a misguided agenda.
Don't you have that data? you just posted it for 2004.
In 2002 we harvested 197,183 adult doe and it dropped to 119,767 in 2007 which is a decrease of 39%. At the same time the antlerless allocation only dropped by around 15%. So it is obvious there were a lot fewer adult doe were available to be bred and produce fawns in 2007.
I suspect I do have the data, that is part of the reason I know how wrong you are. The other part is just common sense.
If you want the data call Harrisburg and ask them for it. Maybe the Attorney for the Uninformed Silly People can get it for you. I’m not obligated to sharing data with anyone trying to use it in a law suit against the Agency on their misguided mission.
R.S. Bodenhorn