ORIGINAL: bluebird2
The problem is that too many people, sometimes even the professionals, listen to much to the public and political demands instead of to what the deer are saying. It has always been that way and some extent it still is and might always be that way. That is why many areas can’t improve enough to ever have more deer then they have now unless they get a run of good mast crops and mild winters that allow for short term increases.
That means you are admitting the herd is not being managed based on herd health and forest health ,which is what I have been saying from day one. What political pressures are forcing the PGC to manage the herd at much higher levels than in 2G? It sure isn't the pressure from hunters.
What? You can’t be serious.
You haven’t heard hunters complaining they want lower allocations and doe harvests? You haven’t read the posts from you contingent on this message board? You haven’t seen them asking everyone to call their Legislators and demand the allocations and harvests be reduced?
Yes, you have been complaining that the herd isn’t being properly managed. Are you now saying it isn’t being properly managed because we aren’t listening the deer and their habitat and should be harvesting more deer?
If you are I would like to be the first to welcome you to theranks of people that believe in and support scientific resource management. I figure I already know the answer and that this is just another or your twisted misrepresentations.
R.S. Bodenhorn