WW, I hear you about ryerson. That place is a mere shadow of what it used to be.
Ehd effect had been and still is downplayed greatly by pgc. I dont know of one area that was "hit hard" that has come back to pre-ehd levels. And even pre-ehd levels werent exactly overly robust thanks to all the years of 55k tags.
I lost a couple of places to hunt due to ehd. Landowners didnt want more deer killed. Perfectly understandable i guess. Funny how pgc says the herd came back, but apparently the aforementioned landowners disagree. Still no hunting.
2A herd is down quite a bit. I'll be absolutely shocked if the harvest figures arent even lower than the last couple years pathetic harvests.