ORIGINAL: Cornelius08
"What I would expect of a good audit is not just an accptance and re-running of numbers and figures but an in depth analisis of how those numbers and figures were acheived. "
I agree 100%. And considering doing all that for all data used and collected from deer density to harvest estimation, to reproductive data and regeneration... Plus all the other things that this thing should be concerned with... Brother, thats one helluva undertaking.
Especially in less than one year and for only $90,000!!!And there were bids in the 260,000range!!
Not really. The audit doesnt have to go out in the field and count deer or count embryos again. They just have to evaluate PA's practices against known, accepted and reliable scientific practices. Peer review is the term often usedto describethe practice.