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.
You aren’t so dense as not to have realized that the doe mortality study was set up to monitor does with collars on were you. They know how many of those does were not harvested by hunters because they are still out there. So obviously hunters didn’t harvest then if they are still there. We already know that hunters harvested very few of the marked does in every study that has been done in the northern remote areas, based on the deer marked for the fawn study and the collared doe study.
The objective of the non-visible reward tags is to measure any variable their MIGHT BE on does without collars, assuming that some hunters might see the collar and then not shot that doe. Do you want to place any bets on how much change in the hunter harvest there will be on collared verse simply tagged does?
R.S. Bodenhorn