ITs an absolute joke that our "game commission" touts this guy as some kinda hero, and only goes to show how bad things really are with whos running our commission.
Just a few snippets from this antideer joker first from pgc website:
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
Yeah...Just a tad.
Then this little snippet from audubon (who also worship the guy):
"1950 Pennsylvania Game News, commission deer biologist Roger Latham wrote about a man who was presented by a good fairy with a pile of gold and a cloth bag. The fairy warned him not to take too much because the bag would rip, and he'd have nothing. But, blinded by greed, he kept piling in the gold until the seams gave way and he "was left holding the bag." "Were the deer hunters satisfied when the deer population was doubled from 1913 to 1915," demanded Latham, "doubled again by 1921, again by 1924, again in 1927, and again and again until at its peak the herd was estimated to have increased five hundred fold? Has not the game commission warned for the past 20 years that the bag contained more gold than it could safely hold?" He inquired if deer should be managed by "well-trained wildlife men or . . . the whims, fancies, and selfish desires of the deer hunters themselves." Choosing whims, fancies, and selfish desires, the hunters had him fired."
Whats the problem you ask? One wouldnt need to ask if you knew that the "selfish deer hunters" who wanted so many deer and were so unreasonable harvested a whopping grand total of 1,287 deer in 1915 according to pgc. Kinda puts a whole different spin on things dont it? Musta been a HUGE herd gobbling up everything in site statewide no doubt. lol.