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06-17-2009 | 06:38 PM

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R.S.B.

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RE: PA VOTED WORST DEER STATE IN NATION

I spent some time last night digging up some of Pennsylvania’s deer management history and had pages of quotes from past professional deer managers and Commissioners. But, this site will not allow me to copy and paste all it into a post.

Therefore, I am reduced to just making a few comments and providinglinks to the information.

Everyone that has any logical understanding of deer management already knows that several of you don’t understand or support scientific resource management because it doesn’t fit into your misguided agendas.

The worst part is that hunters are forcing the same stupid mistakes time after time, decade after decade, generation after generation. We will end with very few places that support more then limited numbers of deer unless that cycle of the same stupid mistakes demanded by the unknowledgeable hunters can be broken.

The good news is that it appears that more and more hunters are finally beginning to understand the need for listening to the deer and their habitat instead of the whining of a few hunters that refuse to learn from decades of the past stupid mistakes.

Here is some of the history of how the Game Commission has been trying to educate hunters for over eighty years.

A link to comments from the Commissioners, management professionals, some hunters and even the courts as they relate to the history of deer management, the problems and what we have today:

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=460&Q=174569

More Pennsylvania deer management history:

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=460&q=174555

This should make it easy to see that the Game Commission has been actively trying for many decades to both manage deer within the limits of their habitat for the benefit of the deer and also trying to educate the hunters about the importance of doing so.

This should also prove that the hunters have fought that knowledge that would have resulted in more deer today for many decades and into the third generation.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that we would have far more deer in almost areas of the state today if hunters had listened to the professional deer managers of the past. There is also no doubt in my mind that the only way we will have more deer instead of fewer deer for the future is if hunters finally learn from those past makes and finally allow the professionals to scientifically manage both deer and their habitat.

The good news is that more and more hunters do seem to be coming around and learning how important scientific resource management is.

Unfortunately many of the people that post on this very site are the perpetuating and prolonging the very deer management problems they both want and demand be corrected.

R.S. Bodenhorn

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