ORIGINAL: Cornelius08
"If hunters were reluctant to shoot collared deer for whatever reason, it would result in lower than expected harvest mortality and as a result the study would be flawed no matter when it was conducted. "
Exactly.
And so the PGC will do it again and either get better data or dispell a myth. Either way, we all benefit from their trying to eliminate possibleflaws in the data.
I fail to see how trying to make a research project more accurate can be a bad thing unless someone with an agenda has worries as to what the outcome will do to that agenda.