The adult doe breeding rates, from the highway killed deer I have checked, for the same time five year time periods have also shown a great improvement of 84.4% adult doe being bred before antler restrictions to 98.0% being bred since. Also before antler restrictions it took over five months to get those adult does bred, but since antler restrictions that breeding window has declined to six weeks and even included the few juvenile doe that were bred.
If the breeding rate in your area increased by over 13 % , can you explain why there weren't similar increases in the other 21 WMU?Why didn't the statewide average increase by 4 or 5% rather than decreasing by 5%?
The fawn recruitment rates in this area have also improved since antler restrictions, based on the number of fawns per adult doe the volunteer survey teams have seen. Before antler restrictions the five year average was .54 fawns per adult doe and has increased to .63 fawns per adult doe since antler restrictions.
Since the deer in 2G have twice as much food/deer than they had 10 years ago, why is the reproductive rate only .64 when the statewide average is around .99 fawns/adult doe?