Originally Posted by
pats102862
There will be some here that will say the PGC serves the warped intrests of enviromental wackos. In reality they have to serve the intrests of all Pennsylvanians, because one way or another we are all effected by deer populations. Be it crop damage, collisions with autos or motorcycles, or just sneaking in your yard and eating your flowers and rubbing your new red maple trees, deer can be a real costly problem. hunters want more deer in the woods, motorcyclists want to be able go a mile without having a deer jump out in front of them. How do you make everyone happy.
Exactly Pats! We as hunters are in the minority. We get to hunt deer mostly because society benefits from our activities. For now the nonhunting public is on our side but if the majority nonhunting public ever changes their mind about us, it's game over quicker than we could ever imagine. Thank goodness most hunters have woken up to the fact that we can't expect to keep up unrelistic deer numbers and still be considered valuable to the NH public.