You are also correct that the hunter/politician forced plan of lower license allocations to create more deer in those northern tier units has been a failure. Hunters were sure that if they could force the Game Commission to reduce the allocations they would have more deer for the future. The Game Commission listened to those hunters and did reduce the allocation and antler less harvests, but it sure didn’t result in having more deer. So you are correct that too was a failure since the intent was to give the hunters what they wanted. The problem is that giving hunters what they want isn’t really what they want since most of the hunters have no idea about the inter-relationship between the deer food and the deer numbers of the future.
That is a flat out lie. the antlerless allocations in 2G reduced the herd to half of the OWDD goal of 15 DPSM and that is the only reason 2G has the lowest harvest rate in the state even tough it is 90% forested and has more public land than any other WMU.