Sorry, but another rant on the PGC. Read if you want or not. I was just doing some random searching on the PGC web site looking at the various state game lands and saw a link on the home page for whitetail deer. I clicked on it and started going through the charts and figures they had listed. Now knowing most of WMU 4E where I do most of my hunting, I began plugging in the number on my computer's calculator. In 2010 the deer population for WMU 4E was set at 65,894 deer. Now first off, that was hard to believe. But OK let's assume its right. Now on the same hand, WMU 4E covers 1736 sq miles. So, 65894/1736 = 37.9. Wow, almost 38 deer per square mile in 4E! They must be hibernating.
At the same time the license/deer harvest dropped from 3.1 in 2003 to 4.6 in 2010 with a decrease in license allocations of only 11,000. AND supposedly the total deer population in this WMU only dropped about 7,000 from 2005 to 2010 (72,971 to 65,894).
Well I guess its true...figures don't lie, but liars figure.