RE: PA Deer Management
"I'd love to hear why this is a bad thing! Do tell."
If the priority isn't to reduce the herd ,but to have more buck,then passing on fawns makes sense. Alt made the number one prioity balancing the herd with the habitat ,which means reducing the herd to the OWDD goals. Since fawns comprise 44% of the anterless harvest,if all hunters passed on small deer ,the anterless harvest would decrease significantly ,since fawns are much easier to harvest than adult doe.
According to the latest data, Alt's plan has failed to reduce the herd ,even with 1 M anterless tags and the concureent season and a longer early ML season.
Maybe you can explain why previous biologist were able to control the herd with many fewer anterless tags and only a 3 day anterless season.