Putting the deer herds in balance with their habitat, as you suggest, is exactly what the Game Commission is and has been doing. Yet you are screaming about saying we need mor
That is without a doubt a flat out lie. Since 1890 the PGC has been managing the herd based solely on the carrying capacity of forested habitat. As a result they were trying to manage the herd at much less than the MSY carrying capacity of the habitat and that explains why breeding rates decreased as the herd was reduced ,instead of increasing as predicted.
The worst part is that there are still a lot more areas on the road to destroyed habitat and low deer numbers for the future because today’s hunters refuse to learn from the past and want to continue down the same stupid and destructive path of their fathers and grandfathers.
The worst part is that our professional deer managers fail to recognize that based on their own data our herd was healthier when we had 1.6M PS deer than it is now that we have less than 1M PS deer. Breeding rates and productivity decreased as the herd was reduced and that proves beyond a doubt that our herd was below the MSY carrying capacity of the habita when the current push for HR reduction began in 2000.