Before the affects of antler restrictions the five year average adult buck/adult doe ratio the volunteer survey teams were seeing 1 adult buck per 3.80 adult does and the average since has been 1 adult buck per 2.72 adult does.
The adult doe breeding rates, from the highway killed deer I have checked, for the same time five year time periods have also shown a great improvement of 84.4% adult doe being bred before antler restrictions to 98.0% being bred since. Also before antler restrictions it took over five months to get those adult does bred, but since antler restrictions that breeding window has declined to six weeks and even included the few juvenile doe that were bred
That is what you posted in a previous discussion regarding the 5% decrease in statewide breeding rates. If other northern tier counties would have had a increase anywhere close to 13 % statewide breeding rates would have increased significantly rather than decreasing. So the question then is how reliable is the 13% increase and why didn't other WMUs experience similar increases.
It certainly would be nice to have more civil discussions and we might learn more from each other, but we aren't going to learn anything if the information provided isn't true or accurate. And, blaming the poor habitat for the recent decrease in the herd in 2G is neither true nor accurate, especially if the increase in breeding rates is true and accurate. Breeding rates of 98% are the sign of a very healtht habitat.