I look at it like this. Pgc has reduced the entire friggin state. Many areas needed NO reduction, some needed some, but got a helluva lot more. And theres always an invalid excuse and deciet involved.
2A? The herd needed some reduction. It got slashed in half according to pgc data, and worse if you believe hunter account. The extent of it was not done for regeneration as the regen. at the time was fine in the58- 60+% range. Human conflict was rated as low for the unit (and that was with nearer all time high herd size at the time!!) So why was it done so severly? Why is it continuing according to pgc data despite claims of "stabilization" which was supposed to be in place years ago?
Then, as the habitat that was fine since day one, regeneration was improving even more all along as the herd was reduced.......Then around 2006 or so Pgc changes their assessment process and the regen. With a modern day low deer density in the wmu, due to the "change" regen. fell from good and 61%, down to....FORTY SIX PERCENT....and the next year a flipping THIRTY SIX!!! Why did they suddenly raise the bar and make changes that sent our habitat rating from the mid sixty percentile range....Down into the high thirties immediately? lmao. Would you say thats pure unadulterated bull-? Because i certainly do.
Now to turn attention toward the north...The forests arent all that different in composition than most other similar eastern mountainous forests in the nation They also have ferns growing in areas, and as with ours, your view isnt limited to a max of 50 yards in any of their mature forests. those other states arent screaming at the top of their lungs about the danged deer and destroyed forests, flipping the hunters the bird every chance they get, or enacting extreme ridiculous deer plans. Given all of the above evidence, why on earth should we as hunters believe anything the pgc/dcnr says, when their track record of telling the truth is not very good, and thats been proven many times and we all know they have, and have had some extreme obtuse thinkers with agendas putting alot of this nonsense into play.
Last edited by Cornelius08; 01-13-2010 at 10:23 AM.