ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
ORIGINAL: bluebird2
ORIGINAL: DougE
What the heck,isn't the USP offering up a $10,000 reward for any mountain lions shot?
You like to point to the 8% harvest rate in the study as an indication that hunters aren't harvesting enough deer to reduce the herd. However, the only reason they are offering a reward is so they get some data that comes closer to representing what is really happening.
Now here are the cold facts. From 2004 to 2007 the harvests in 4B reduced the PS DD from 23 DPSM to 18 DPSM and the herd in 2G dropped from 16 PS in 2004 to 10 PS DPSM in 2007. Therefore, the results form the doe survival study are highly flawed and the PGC is trying to correct that by offering a reward.
Just like Babblebird to find a way to criticize an attempt to produce more accurate results to a study.
Wrong again. I didn't criticize the attempt to produce more accurate results. I simply pointed out the reason why it was necessary to offer the rewards and how wrong DougE and RSB were when they used the study to show claim the harvests weren't reducing the herd