ORIGINAL: bluebird2
But Scorp is correct when he says the PGC claims they don't know how many deer we have. Therefore, he has every reason to question the importance of reporting the deer that are harvested. The PGC is responsible for creating this mess by denying they are using the same populations estimates they have always used to allocate doe tags
No one has ever known how many deer there were in any state at any given time in history and if they did it would be changed within about five minutes anyway.
It isn’t even important to know how many deer you have when the deer and their food supply are telling you if there are the right amount, too many deer or if the food supply and habitat could possibly support more deer. It is nearly as important to know how many there are is it to know when you need to harvest more, fewer or maintain a stable harvest.
The deer give you those answers when you monitor them. It makes much more sense to listen to what the deer and habitat have to say then to listen to what hunters have to say. They listen to the hunters so long we have many areas today with very low deer numbers. Listening to the deer works much better because deer don’t have anything but real facts to present while hunters present lots of opinions with almost no supporting facts.
Wise people will put more faith in listening to the deer and their food supply then the hunters.
R.S. Bodenhorn