ORIGINAL: ManySpurs
ORIGINAL: DougE
The doe mortality study shows that hunters are killingless than 8% of the doe.
Yea but the realvalue of that study would have been knowing how many hunters were required to kill those 8 percent. Knowing the success rate would have been very beneficial to forming allocation formulas. What a concept eh? Just knowing that 8 percent of the collared doe that were harvested by hunters is meaningless without knowing the number of hunters that were required to achieve that 8 percent.
Actually part of the same study does attempt to determine hunter densities by both placing GPS units on hunters and using aircraft to count hunters, determine how far form the roads they go and to see where the deer are in relation to where the hunters went.
There are some reports available on that topic. I expect more to come in the future as more studies are completed.
Read more about it here.
http://pacfwru.cas.psu.edu/reports/final-huntmvmt-082004.pdf
R.S. Bodenhorn