ORIGINAL: bluebird2
To stabilize means to hold in place, keep the same…. Since the allocations for 2A didn’t increase or decrease obviously they stayed the same, as in to STABILIZE.
The goal is to stabilize the herd ,not the antlerless allocations. The PGC is allocating the same number of tags to a herd that is decreasing ,which means the same allocation will result in a continued decrease in the herd.
That really isn’t the total picture, or even a realistic picture, of how it works.
It is all connected to the fawn recruitment rates for each year. The recruitment rates vary from year to year based on a wide range of influencing factors. Long periods of stable allocations provide the best opportunity for stable fawn recruitment with minimal herd size changes.
R.S. Bodenhorn