Dunno if I buy that Cornelius. Even if you are right about that significant of a uniform reduction, if a county was supposed to have 40-45 deer per square mile and now it is only half that, the deer density is still higher than many areas of other states that are supposed to be hot spots. And I'm not sure how the dynamics of what is/isn't happening in the WNU's would change the fact that deer population densities would remain high in areas where much of the land is privately held and less subject to state management policies. At least that seems to be the opinion of some folks who actually own land or hunt on private land.