Based on that alone shouldn’t a reasonable person be starting to recognize that fewer license and low antler less harvests hasn’t worked to build higher deer numbers? It should also be pretty obvious that the line about it only being about money must be purely horse-puckey.
But any reasonable person would also recognize that when harvests exceed recruitment ,it takes fewer antlerless tags and lower harvests to continue to reduce the herd. That is exactly what happened in 2G and it is why 2G has the lowest harvest rates in the state even though it is the one WMU where the PGC has been successful in reducing the herd to less than 10 DPSM. even with the reduced allocations in 2007 the harvest still reduced the herd by 23% in 2g.