"I still find VA quite interesting. Here's a state only 4k sq miles less in land mass, has 99 WMU's, is a combined Game/Fish Agency that has roughly 1/2 the budget of the PA Game and Fish commisions combined, and yet you can go to a link on their website: http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlif...vest/index.asp ... and find Deer Harvest data state-wide, by region, or by county/city for last year, the last 10 years, or all data (1947 to present). "

Its amazing how so many other states make it work isnt it? LOL. To hear pgc tell it, its an impossibility. You think theyd at least throw the sportsmen that bone, seeing as how it would definately help with public relations at the very least since I havent seen ONE hunter on several boards say they wouldnt like smaller wmus. Also very good point about Virginia. Nearly same size as Pa, yet they take half the money to run management, and they do so with a system of smaller wmus that pgc says would take MORE money! Now why doesnt all this sound quite right???

Amen Patsy. I would support going back to the couty system or similar size units and wouldnt be unhappy if they were even smaller, broken up by roads ,rivers ,streams etc. Whatever. They have options. They just flatly refuse to explore them. And its only the way it is because its easier to reduce a herd over entire areas instead of micromanaging when the wmus are fewer and larger plus saves them some work in the way of data collection and assessing, as well as preparing annual reports etc.. It seem the biologists at pgc would rather work half as much, while the agency soaks up twice the money of other states. [:'(]