A tad melodramatic – “Much of Pennsylvania's deer range is now a
desert – a forest desert with rotting bones of starved deer." - Roger
Latham, 2/53 PA Game News

Well, maybe not that bad – “Remember the good old days when there
was a whitetail behind every bush, and it was not too unusual to start 50
or 100 deer on one drive? Remember how every member of some upstate
families would kill a deer -- including mom and grandpop? Remember
how a car with five hunters inside would have four or five deer tied to the
outside? And remember how hunters scoffed at doe hunting because it
was ‘just like shooting cows?’

“Those lush days are about gone, except for a small area in the
northcentral counties, and within five years this pocket will probably go
as have the other great concentration areas of the state...

“Hunters fought these ‘doe’ seasons, by petition and abrogation, until it
was too late. As a result, not only is high-yield deer hunting on its way
out, but in the meantime we have sacrificed our grouse, cottontail and
snowshoe hare hunting." -- Roger Latham, 2/53 P