I think the real problem is regional like someone else suggested. It is probably a difficult task to segrate each county with different management practices, but my God the areas that are not as dense as others could be a huge discrepancy!! It seems to me like they are taking the overpopulated regions and implementing management practices based on controlling those. Well what about the zones that are not as dense or struggling with their deer herd?? What happens to that population? It suffers in accordance with a blanket management program geared towards managing over populated areas. So basically they bring the numbers to an acceptable level in dense areas and mutilate the population in areas that are currentely struggling with the herd. Why cant' the bring balance to all zones involved??
i'm not sure what you are exactly saying, but they do try and regulate population regionally (locally). that is what the DMUs are for. That is why some areas have high doe permit allocations and others have lower and some have none (why 7J has high second chance for a permit and 7M has no chance and why you can't shoot doe in the Adirondacks). Granted, some of that is do to hunting pressure, but the bottom line is that the doe permit allocations are meant to help decreas/balance the population.
I'm not sure if this is what you were talking about, but thought i'd mention it anyway.