ORIGINAL: DougE

I am taking it easy.Not worked up in the least over this post.

I check in daily but lost my password and was too lazy to get a new one.

I don't have a whole lot of faith in the roadkilled data they use to determine the health of the herd myself.From 2003-1005 they only checked 112 deer in 2G.That's about 37 deer a year.Thirty of them were fawns and they don't use them anymore to determine herd health.They use 3 year olds and older to determine herd health now and over a 3 year periodonly 64 were checked.I may be wrong but I don't see how that can be statistically significant.

What Isee myself and what other that I know see is a different story.I know without any shadow of a doubt that we've seen big improvements in the habitat in many areas over the past several years.I also feel that overall,the deer herd is getting healthier.The size and number of bucks showing up at taxidermists is unreal.There is less deer and it can be a tough pill to swallow at times but redcuing the herd was the right thing to do.