Most doe tags aren't filled every year, in every WMU in the state. It usually takes 3 or 4 doe tags for every antlerless deer harvested. The USP claimed the herd had been annihilated the and that the herd had been reduced to unsustainable levels. Both claims are extreme when you consider that we still harvested over 300K deer in 2009. When you are in court words have specific meanings and when you make claims that you can't support with independent facts, you undermine your credibility and your chances of winning your case.

The USP would have had a much stronger case if they would have just compared the claims Alt made while selling the plan to the results nine years later ,using the PGC's own data. Personal opinions are meaningless in court ,unless you are declared and expert witness by the court and the USP didn't provide any expert witnesses.