DougE;
The fact that I have hundreds of thousands of acres to use for free and for many other uses is unreal.A larger deer herd and better deer habitat would be nice but it's still good hunting by my standards.
It's not free Doug. You pay for it, I pay for it, Joe Schmoe pays for it, and our ancestors paid for it. As it stands, many of us paying for those state lands have no say in what goes on. We have no input. And when the DCNR asks for input, who do they get it from? The NWTF, the RGS, a couple of HPA eco-freaks, the QDMA etc etc etc. That conveniently leaves us folks that have troubles with this DMP on the outside looking in.
I don't know where Merlin Benners name came into this fray. But I've met Merlin and he is a nice enough guy. However, I have to question his motives from his stance in 2001 when he stated that the deer herd was doing well in the Tioga State Forest and that herd health indicated that food was abundant to his about face in 2002 when this DMP started.