"Everyone here in PA receives a postage-paid big game report card that takes about 15 seconds to fill out, if successful. If everyone that killed a deer, did that, no need for check stations and the PGC would have a more complete data base. As it is now, there are enough different types of data collected within their system to make it work, so it suits me."

The harvest reporting isnt the problem. Of course it would be nice if everyone turned in a harvest, but assuming the current system is at least fairly accurate, that leaves the goals of the program as the problem. Biodiversity extreme goals. I dont have a problem with the pgc claims of how many deer we have. They are flat out telling us we have relatively few when they post the data on the anual reports that shows us when the highest wmu density in the state is less than 25 owdpsm and continuing to decline which is one of the lowest goals per best area of a state...and other areas of our state have less than 10 dpsm which are as low as pretty much anywhere whitetails exist. Keep the reporting system if need be....but do the right thing and cut the allocation.