RE: At this period of time, do you favor a hunting license increase?
"That is the reason some of us learned to hunt for deer where the deer live instead of just sitting and waiting for a deer to come out to where it was easy or convenient to kill one. "
If more hunters "learned to hunt" as you seem to insinuate is necessary, all that would achieve is to reduce the herd even further and the harvests thereafter would fall even farther down the toilet. The harvests that are already exceeding recruitment are not sustainable. And there is not room for more without reducing the herd even further. The answer is not to add harvest to this herd now. It is to reduce harvest, allow herd growth so a larger SUSTAINABLE harvest can be had very soon thereafter.
BTW, I didnt catch any comment from you on WV combo license. The rediculous chart protrayed the WV hunting license as 10 dollars more than the combo license they offer that includes archery muzzleloader trapping FISHING and 3 deer tags for 33 bucks. Compare the same in Pa at OVER A HUNDRED.