If some hunters are expecting the institute to provide an exact count of Pennsylvania’s deer, a question long-asked by the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania, they might be disappointed.

“We are not going out in the field to count deer,” Williamson said. “There will be no independent population survey. We will look at the Commission’s data and the quality of the data and ask if it is defensible and reliable. If their data is up to the task, we will make a population estimate and indicate a level of confidence in the estimate. If the confidence level is too wide, the estimate won’t be worth the paper that it is printed on.

And the problem is what, exactly?

Wheredid it ever say that some pointless (and impossible)stab at a state-wide deer estimate was to be attempted, or that it was supposed to beanything other thana professionalcritique of PGC's management programs?

Has not WMI also critiqued the management programs of several other states and made suggestions on how to conduct them differently, or in some cases, found them to be pretty much within the guidelines of accepted management practices?