So the deer kill drops by 60 thou from 07' to 08' and everyone wants to thro the DNR under the bus... Bu in 02' it dropped over a 100 thou from 01' I did not hear this same type of anti DNR stuff.. Why did 02' kill so few deer??

Couple of reasons.. CWD... and a baiting ban.. Baiting comes bac and the kill goes right back up the next season

This tells me that without baiting.. we will kill less deer in these key units of the north that have reported a huge reduction in the kills from 08' ..This proves that it is much harder to kill deer without bait... .. So this being proven in 2002. why not make it a little harder for everyone to kill deer straight across the board and get rid of the baiting and feeding ... This will then place more deer back in the north for everyone to hunt in future seasons with out forcing anyone to take a doe first like in a EAB set ups.. Seems pretty simple to me.

NH