I guess the overall impact will depend on how they treat the first week of the season, will you be able to hunt deer on Thanksgiving and moreover, will your wife allow you?

For me it would amount to an extra day and a half of hunting, i would still only take 3 days off work, but would get thanksgiving morning and black friday. So while more guys will have more time, i dont think it will be overly devasting since more than likely the woods will be deserted the second week (after Thanksgiving) and really empty the third week.

Also how are they planning to trear beat season? everyone can still hutn bear, or will it go back to a lottery system? If everyone can hunt bear that wants to then i think the bear population would be impacted much more than the deer population.

I doubt you will see archery extended any longer since it would interfere with Elk Season, unless they woudl prohibit archery hunting in the elk management areas.