TJD
No offense taken to your previous post. I agian agree with you that the dnr has no clue to what there doing, thats a given! But in the unit I hunt in the north west ( near cable) the amount of does that get shot are few. At least from what I see. You go to a registration station and see 10 cars with a deer, of that 10 deer you see one doe, a button buck, 1-2 : 2 1/2 yr old bucks and the rest will be comprised of spikes and fork horns. You see cars driving around with spike after spike strapped to them. I'm not saying don't shoot little bucks because to a young child or first time hunter a fork horn is a trophy. But some of these guys you see every year with a spike or a fork horn. They claim it is for meat, but then go on to say that they passed up a few adult does befor they harvested the spike. Where is the logic in that.
I will also say that I saw a few more does taken up there this year. But that was entirly due to the looming EAB. What they didn't realize is 5 yrs. ago when it was made a t-zone they had said, you have 5 years to bring the deer numbers down or your getting EAB. Well you can't go on not shooting does till the last year and expect to meet the requirements.
Agian thats just from my observation. If you could provide a link that I can get the hard numbers from the harvest I would love to see them.

Jeff