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
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Interesting. Now how do you go about to determine deer capacity per WMUs? You just said you listen to the deer but yet do you all really do? Do you observe every deer at every SQM and habitat? Get real now on the procedures your trying to sell the people. Lets look at the worse habitat in 2G and dictate that for all of 2G. Great work there buddy. What a moron.