In fact, until the committees nixed bow hunting and only narrowly passed ANY attempt to do shotgun hunting, most of the biologists watching this proposal (the local county people from the area are wondering if they will follow with hunting if Will County does it)thought the plan might have legs---but not now--and why waste the time so that 14 hunters can hunt---it works out to about $1200-1300/deer for a hunting program assuming everyone gets 2 deer.
THOSE ARE NOT NUMBERS I CAME UP WITH--THEY ARE WHAT THE BOARD IS REVIEWING
That would be an awful expensive foot in the door--and the money could be spent better elsewhere. It should be proposed that areas with no public access--and there are about 2 dozen of them that would be huntable--be used as part of a recreational hunting program and that the numbers hunters take be looked at to see if management is feasible. Then the management goals and objectives aren't directly linked to any particular form of removal. Instead the program states that the target numbers of hundred and hundreds are the goal and then the plan asks if hunting will achieve them. It was done this way so that management would be the over-arching message so as to deflect a lot of criticism, but all it did was cripple the plan.