The reason there aren’t more deer in those areas today is simply that hunters demanded more deer then the habitat could sustain for long the habitat became so degraded it couldn’t support many deer. Thus the deer population in some of those areas crashed and is only slowly starting to recover the past year or two
That simply is not true. In WMU 2G where the herd has been reduced the most,was at it's goal DD in 1999 before the current plan was implemented Despited the fact that the herd was at its goal of 15 DPSM in 1999 the herd was reduced to 8-9 DPSM in 2008 and the forest health was still rated as poor. The simple fact is that the herd in 2G has been below the MSY carrying capacity of the habitat since 1980.