ou need to go back and reread the report ole boy because it very clearly isn’t supporting having deer populations as high as you claim in forested habitats.
I didn't say the report supported having 49 DPSM. What I said was the report stated that the MSY CC of the typical northern hard wood forest is 40 DPSM and that is exactly what the report says.
What the herd has proven over the last dozen years is that when harvests exceed recruitment, it takes even lower harvests to continue to reduce the herd since there are a lot fewer doe producing fawns so recruitment decreases and the sustainable harvest decreases ,which is exactly what happened in 2G.