Originally Posted by
bluebird2
If you think my calculations of our herd is silly and meaningless, why don't you tell us how many PS deer we had in 2008, if a harvest of 335 K deer kept the herd stable? Now here is a hint. In 2000 the PGC said with a PS herd of 1.5M ,it took a harvest of 505K to keep the herd stable.
Somewhere around 900,000 deer. Or 1/3 harvest rate to equal recruitment and maintain current deer populations.