Absolutely. Im from Pa and you wanna see "deer wars", you aint seen nothin' in Wi! Our ex deer management team leader hadda wear a bullet proof vest in public. The game commission is being denied a license fee increase through legislative intervention on behalf of the sportsmen, they are also being sued by a sportsmens group, and also legislators have demanded that an audit be done. Hunter disgust is at an all time high, and hunters are on the legislators to do something constantly, with no effective results.

Our agency is called "independant" and therefore makes them very hard to fight. They are a sock puppet of other state agencies and the not very hunter concerned governor. There is no effective check and balance system and they basically do whatever they like. They are currently run by environmental extremists whove managed around a decade ago to get their feet in the door. We now have goals of extreme biodiversity, they want things like tons of "trillium" and "hobblebush" etc. We have modern day low deer densities and 40- 50 year low buck harvests, and lower harvest than you guys in Wi, even though we have hundreds of thousands more hunters. And we STILLhave 8-9 hundred thousand doe tags, plus all kind of other deer killing "tools" and programs.

Antler restrictions arent bad imho, but the excessive reduction is ridiculous and done in the name of forest certification, and excessive extreme unnatural levels of biodiversity being pushed by our dcnr, audubon society & other enviro-weeny groups.

Of all the states asked, Our pgc is one of very few states that said they will support and give permission for in state thorough "real world" testing of the new epa approved gona-con deer contraception. FIne bunch our commission.

Worst deer management in the nation, bar none and not getting any better any time soon. Lotsa info on it down in threads throughout the northeast forum down in the regional section lower on this site.