I would think that you would know better by now then to challenge the data facts I post.
You are simply full of bologna about the antler less allocations and the harvests being increased that being what reduced the 2G deer population. An increased allocation and harvest simply didn’t happen.
I don't challenge the facts and data you post , I challenge how you manipulate and interpret that data. You use five year averages to hide the effects short term increases in allocations and harvests which result in a long term decrease in the herd.
You claim increased allocations and harvests didn't happen in 2G but I can prove you are wrong and show how those increased allocations reduced the herd. You stated that from 98-02 allocations in 2G were 12.3 tags/SM. That allocation and harvests reduced the herd from 15DPSM in 2000 to 12 OW DPSM in 2003. But, even after the herd was reduced by 3 DPSM the PGC issued 52,000 tags for 2003 and 2004 which was an increase to 12.6 tags PSM, which resulted in a harvest of 4.03 antlerless deer in 2003. The harvests in 2003 and 2004 in 2G reduced the herd to a level where there were only 12 PS DPSM in 2005.
It is absolutely ridiculous to claim that the habitat reduced the herd in 2g from 15 OW DPSM in 2000 to 12 PS deer PSM in 2005 when the harvests during that period exceeded recruitment.