That is a great article and here is one of the biggest lies every told about the history of deer management in PA.
For the 80 years prior to 1999, Pennsylvania hunters, who fund the Game Commission with their license dollars and therefore dictate policy, had demanded that the commission produce more deer than the woods could sustain. For 80 years they had gotten used to gross deer overabundance so that their sport more closely resembled a baited dove shoot than true deer hunting. If they imagined or perceived the slightest diminution in deer numbers, they shrieked like crated shoats.
The PA hunters did not prevent the PGC from increasing antlerless tags from 475K in 1984 to 890,700 in 1998. At the same time the antlerless season increased from 1 day to 3 days and bonus tags were implemented in 1987. Furthermore the antlerless harvests kept the herd stable from 1987 until 1997. In 1997 the PGC increased the antlerless allocation from 640K in 1997 to 890.7K in 1998. but the harvest decreased due to 3 days of bad weather. So it was not the hunters that allowed the herd to increase, it was the PGC's management practices.