ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Do you still want to try telling everyone that the problem is the allocations have been too high during ANY of the recent years for unit 2G?
It is not a question if the antlerless allocations that have been too high or too low. The question is if the allocations resulted in a harvested that exceeded recruitment. The answer is that the allocations beginning in 2000 produced harvests that exceeded recruitment that reduced the herd and future harvest.
You are absolutely correct that the harvests have been higher then fawn recruitment. That is exactly what I have been telling you and everyone else for all this time;fawn recruitment has crashed and resulted in a deer population crash. That is how nature works when it come to deer populations that are out of balance with their habitat.
Now that we haveestablished that fawn recruitment has been lower and proven, with valid statistical data,that both the number of antler less licenses and the antler less harvests have been lower, in recent years, all you need to do is explain why the fawn recruitment is obviously so much lower now then it was backwhen hunters were harvesting more does year after year.
Once you can do that you will finally be on the road to understanding at least the most basic of deer management principles.
R.S. Bodenhorn