ORIGINAL: bluebird2
To continue to follow a MSY strategy is to fail to consider the long term consequences on the habiatat, other species and ultimately the long term effects on the deer herd.
There is no long term negative effect on the deer herd at the MSY CC and that is why it is referred to as the max. sustainable yield, because it is sustainable for the long term. Furthermore , our herd has not been managed at the MSY density since 1980.
If you don't want the herd to be managed at the MSY carrying capacity, do you want it to be managed at the diversity carrying capacity. If so ,do you have any idea what that would do to the buck harvest?
Wrong!
MSY fails to consider the long term impact on habitat. By letting the deer herd max out, over time the habitat is degraded by deer overbrowsing the best forage leaving less desirable forage to regenerate.
Maybe if you try and think of it as "high grading" the habitat you could begin to understand it.