Rep. Godshall recalled how the general consensus of the study was to use an out of state contractor to ascertain an accurate count of the number of deer in PA. Rowe agreed with this statement. Rep. Godshall then expressed concern over the fact that the accuracy of WMI's work would depend upon the data the Game Commission provides them. He worried about prior statements from the Executive Director of the Game Commission where he said the Director admitted to not knowing if the state had ten healthy deer or 100 healthy deer. Rep. Godshall also worried about verbiage from WMI about their conclusions being contingent upon the data they receive from the Commission. He stressed that to accurately conduct this study field work would have to be done.

Rowe said he is not going to argue with the Representative's concern but stressed that field work would be a part of the study. He added that "if possible" verbiage was simply related to WMI not knowing at this point in time about the quality of the data they would receive. Rowe stressed that if it is found that the data quality is poor then WMI will make recommendations on how the Game Commission can change its data collection system.