RE: The good, the bad & the ugly.
Thats easy Doug. Providing a reasonable responsible deer management plan that includes hunters as one of the significant stakeholders when considering management decisions.
Jim says: "The ugly is the attitude. "
Jim its a product of pgcs own making. They knew EXACTLY what the attitude would be from the hunters when they decided to jump into bed with the econuts from day one.
"Bitter ,vile and nasty is not productive."
But it is what it is. If someone cussed your ol' lady or smacked your dog, or hosed you out of some money, youd be "bitter' "vile" and Id image "nasty". How is being hosed by pgc any more acceptable when it comes to our "lifestyle"?
' Debate is based on knowledge , direction and common goal."
Our goals are not the same as "econuts" or currently pgcs.
"Personal attacks and public crucification of people with opposing opinions gets nothing done."
Thats a two way street and they reap what they sow.
"I don,t agree with the herd reduction so on my land we don't shoot does. I don't see over abundance cucumber roots as the reason for my failure to flock shoot deer running through the woods."
Well thats just swell. Manage your own land and to hell with everyone esle. Thats fine, but dont expect the rest of us to be just as happy with things.
"The people at PGC don't scare me. I don't see black helicopters dropping coyotes in my woods."
No, they are too busy carpet bombing those woods with antlerless deer licenses, taking casualty counts and counting hobblebush.
"If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times the PGC is not shooting all of the doe,"
I couldnt give a damn less if hunters shoot every stinking one of them if its legal. In fact, that might just be a good remedy for all this deer war nonsense! LOL.
We pay PGC to manage and that includes preventing overkill from happening. "the hunters" didnt voluntarily stop shooting the bucks as yearlings. Pgc acted and implement ar. This is no different, in fact its probably even more important for them to act now.